OpenAI· Applied AI Engineering· Seattle
Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation
Comp$293K – $325K
Classified Tasks (13)
Automate 0%Augment 77%Human-Only 23%
Augment (10)
AI assists, human decides
Design data pipelines to ingest and integrate user event data into the data warehouse.
technical
Build data pipelines and core tables for OpenAI to support downstream analytics and systems.
technical
Manage and operate data pipelines to ensure reliable, timely ingestion and processing of user event data.
operational
Develop canonical datasets that track product metrics such as user growth, engagement, and revenue.
analytical
Provide data solutions to cross-functional teams based on their requirements.
operational
Implement robust, fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
technical
Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards.
administrative
Lead efforts to create core tables and schemas that power analyses, safety systems, and business decision-making.
leadership
Enable analyses, safety systems, product growth initiatives, and abuse prevention by maintaining pipelines and core datasets.
operational
Support delivery of trained models to users by integrating model training and inference data workflows into production pipelines.
technical
Human-Only (3)
Requires human judgment
Collaborate with Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research teams to gather and clarify data requirements.
communication
Participate in data architecture and engineering decision-making and design reviews.
leadership
Collaborate closely with researchers behind ChatGPT to prepare data and support model training pipelines.
communication
Job description
Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation | OpenAI Careers ## Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation Applied AI Engineering - Seattle Apply now(opens in a new window) **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, such as Hadoop, Flink 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, 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color,