$185K – $260K/yr
Data Scientist, Inference Capacity Optimization
Market pay estimate
$181,000–$266,025 / year for comparable Data Scientist roles in United States. Estimated from 144 similar postings (high confidence) — not stated by the employer.
Role overview
Job description
About the Role OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to partner closely with Capacity Systems Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and Research to optimize inference capacity across our global GPU fleet. This role combines statistical modeling, large-scale data analysis, forecasting, and systems thinking to drive critical decisions around infrastructure investments, performance-efficiency trade-offs, and customer experience. You’ll transform complex operational data into actionable insights that directly influence how OpenAI allocates and scales one of the world’s largest AI compute environments. Key Responsibilities Build statistical and machine learning models to profile and improve GPU utilization, laten
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- Posted 15 Sept 2026
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Qualification
Qualifications MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience); 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space
Department · Scaling
Hiring company
OpenAI
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