Data Scientist, Infrastructure
Data Scientist, Infrastructure
OpenAI
The Data Scientist role in OpenAI's Infrastructure team focuses on scaling the infrastructure that supports OpenAI's advanced compute fleet. The position involves developing foundational datasets, metrics, forecasting models, and dashboards to optimize resource allocation and improve infrastructure efficiency. The role requires collaboration with engineering, research, and product teams to drive data-informed decisions and strategies.
Qualification
- 5+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating ambiguous environments, ideally in infrastructure, systems, or platform domains.
- Experience defining and operationalizing metrics that reflect system performance, resource usage, or efficiency from the ground up.
- Strong foundation in SQL and Python, with a track record of building models and analyses that drive technical and strategic decisions.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineers, researchers, and product stakeholders.
- A strategic mindset that goes beyond statistical testing to surface actionable insights and long-term tradeoffs.
Responsibility
- Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling.
- Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infrastructure 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 infrastructure decisions across OpenAI.
- Guide the definition of foundational datasets for infrastructure resources.
