Data Engineer, Core Experimentation OpenAI

• 4.6 Seattle, WA Job Details $293,000
• $385,000 a year 11 hours ago Qualifications AI models Data integrity assurance Commercial use (data warehousing systems) Software engineering Data Integration (Data management) HDFS Software design Distributed file systems Systems architecture experience within technology Spark Scalable systems 3 years Information security Java Information security compliance Technical solutions implementation Data Architecture Design (Architecture design skills) Collaboration with product development teams Spark implementation Airflow Scala Data Security (Data management) Scalability S3 Distributed computing Senior level Debugging Cross-functional communication High availability Full Job Description Applied AI Engineering•Seattle About the Team The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company.

We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products. Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics. We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era.

About the role:

We're seeking a Data Engineer to take the lead in building our data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI. These pipelines are crucial for powering analyses, safety systems that guide business decisions, product growth, and prevent bad actors. If you're passionate about working with data and are eager to create solutions with significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. This role also provides the opportunity to collaborate closely with the researchers behind ChatGPT and help them train new models to deliver to users. As we continue our rapid growth, we value data-driven insights, and your contributions will play a pivotal role in our trajectory. Join us in shaping the future of OpenAI! In this role, you will: Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse. Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue. Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions. Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing. Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear. Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience(including data engineering). Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java. Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3). Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks. Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code. This role is based in Bellevue. We use a hybrid work model and value in-person collaboration for technical design, iteration, and cross-functional partnership.

Compensation Range:

$293K

• $325K USD About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Compensation $347K

• $385K + Offers Equity