Data Scientist, Safety Systems
About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental
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About the Team The Safety Systems team is dedicated to ensuring the safety, robustness, and reliability of AI models and their deployment in the real world. Building on the many years of our practical alignment work and applied safety efforts, Safety Systems addresses emerging safety issues and develops new fundamental Responsibilities: - Lead our efforts in understanding and measuring the real-world safety impacts of OpenAI’s current and upcoming products - Uncovering new ways to improve our approaches to measuring and mitigating harm and abuse - Develop and implement statistical methods necessary to operationalize safety-related metrics - Provide direction, guidance, and coordination of projects in the space - Establish a data-driven culture within Safety Systems by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalizing of feature-, product-, and company-level metrics - Create and disseminate dashboards, reports, and tools that enable the team and company to answer safety-related questions independently Company context: OpenAI builds frontier AI systems, research infrastructure, and applied products for developers, enterprises, and global users.
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OpenAI lists these responsibilities for the Data Scientist, Safety Systems role.
- Lead our efforts in understanding and measuring the real-world safety impacts of OpenAI’s current and upcoming products
- Uncovering new ways to improve our approaches to measuring and mitigating harm and abuse
- Develop and implement statistical methods necessary to operationalize safety-related metrics
- Provide direction, guidance, and coordination of projects in the space
- Establish a data-driven culture within Safety Systems by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalizing of feature-, product-, and company-level metrics
- Create and disseminate dashboards, reports, and tools that enable the team and company to answer safety-related questions independently
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