Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products

About the TeamOpenAI’s Platform team powers how millions of developers and enterprises build with our models. We provide APIs and agentic solutions used by global startups and fortune 500s. We work closely with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market to build a world-class platform that pushes the frontier of AI capabilities.About the RoleAs a Data Scientist on the Platform team, you will drive a data-driven culture for OpenAI’s API and B2B solutions. You’ll define the metrics that matter for developer success and enterprise value, measure the impact of new models and features, and partner with PMs and engineers to improve model quality, reliability, latency, and cost. Your work will shape how thousands of products adopt agentic AI.This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.In this role, you willEmbed with the Platform product team as a trusted partner, uncovering ways to improve developer experience, reliability, and usage growthDefine north-star metrics across the developer funnel (activation, retention, growth), as well as latency/cost guardrails for new features and modelsDesign and interpret A/B tests and controlled rollouts (e.g., new model versions, pricing/limits, new API features, new B2B products)Build source-of-truth dashboards and self-serve data tools for product, engineering, and go-to-market teamsTranslate product learnings into actionable feedback for Research (e.g., failure modes, eval gaps, model response quality)You might thrive in this role if you have5+ years in a quantitative role in ambiguous, high-growth environments (platforms, APIs, or B2B products a plus)Depth in SQL and Python, with a track record proposing, designing, and running rigorous experimentsExperience defining and operationalizing metrics from scratch (including reliability/latency/cost and safety)Strong cross-functional communication with PMs, engineers, and executivesStrategic instincts beyond p-values—clear thinking about tradeoffs and business impactYou could be an especially great fit if you haveBackground in developer platforms, observability, or usage-based pricing/quotasExperience connecting offline evals to online product impactPrior work in NLP/LLMs or agentic systems, or in enterprise analytics for B2B productsAbout 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