Data Scientist, Infrastructure
About the Team Our infrastructure team helps deliver OpenAI’s most capable models and products to the world by scaling infrastructure and turning demand into useful FLOPS. We collaborate across research, engineering, design, and business to turn cutting-edge AI advancements into impactful, real-world applications.
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Data Scientist, Infrastructure at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team Our infrastructure team helps deliver OpenAI’s most capable models and products to the world by scaling infrastructure and turning demand into useful FLOPS. We collaborate across research, engineering, design, and business to turn cutting-edge AI advancements into impactful, real-world applications.
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- Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling.
- Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infra planning and resource allocation.
- Partner with engineering, research, and product teams to shape infrastructure strategy through data.
- Drive clarity with source-of-truth dashboards and analyses that guide infra decisions across OpenAI.
- 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating ambiguous environments, ideally in infrastructure, systems, or platform domains at a high-growth company or research org
- Experience defining and operationalizing metrics that reflect system performance, resource usage, or efficiency from the ground up
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