Data Scientist, Monitoring Operations (London)

Openai
London
2 months ago
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Is this the role you are looking for If so read on for more details, and make sure to apply today.OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires real world deployment and iteratively updating based on what we learn.The Intelligence and Investigations team supports this by identifying and investigating misuses of our products - especially new types of abuse. This enables our partner teams to develop data-backed product policies and build scaled safety mitigations. Precisely understanding abuse allows us to safely enable users to build useful things with our products.About the RoleAs a Data Scientist on the Monitoring Operations team, you will be responsible for building systems to proactively identify abuse on OpenAI's products. This includes ensuring we have robust monitoring in place for new products, and can sustain monitoring for existing products. You will also respond to critical escalations, especially those that are not caught by our existing safety systems. This will require expert understanding of our products and data, and involves working cross-functionally with product, policy, and engineering teams.This role is based in our London office and includes participation in an on-call rotation that will involve resolving urgent escalations outside of normal work hours. Some investigations may involve sensitive content, including sexual, violent, or otherwise-disturbing material.In this role, you will:Scope and implement monitoring requirements for new product launches. This involves working with Product and Policy teams to understand key risks, and working with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and tooling.Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products. This includes developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks.Experience prototyping and launching abuse detection.Comfort with and experience directly investigating bad actors or behaviours and/or working with investigative experts.You might thrive in this role if you:Have at least 4 years of experience doing technical analysis, especially in SQL and Python.Experience using LLMs to automate work.Experience developing/improving policies and/or human review protocols.Have experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams.Have experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines (not expected to build infrastructure or write production code).Have experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.Compensation, Benefits and PerksThis is a position with OpenAI UK Ltd., which controls the hiring and management of this position.Total compensation includes a competitive salary, generous equity, and benefits.Private medical insurance covering 100% of premiums for employees and their dependentsPension plan with 4% employer contribution52 weeks of maternity leave and 24 weeks of parental leaveUnlimited time offAnnual learning & development stipend ($1,500 USD equivalent per year)About OpenAIOpenAI 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, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy StatementFor US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt 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.

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