About the Team Codex is OpenAI’s first-party developer product focused on agentic software engineering. We’re building tools that help engineers design, write, test, and ship code faster—safely and at scale. We partner tightly with research and product to translate model advances into tangible developer productivity. About the Role As a Data Scientist on Codex, you will measure and accelerate product-market fit for AI developer tools. You’ll define what “developer productivity” means for our product, run experiments on new coding models and UX, and pinpoint where the model helps or hurts across languages and tasks. Your insights will directly shape how an entire industry builds software. 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 will Embed with the Codex product team to discover opportunities that improve developer outcomes and growth Design and interpret A/B tests and staged rollouts of new coding models and product features Define and operationalize metrics such as suggestion acceptance, edit distance, compile/test pass rates, task completion, latency, and session productivity Build dashboards and analyses that help the team self-serve answers to product questions (by language, framework, repo size, task type) Diagnose failure modes and partner with Research on targeted improvements (model quality signals, user feedback, evals) You might thrive in this role if you have 5+ years in a quantitative role at a developer-facing or high-growth product Fluency in SQL and Python; comfort with experiment design and causal inference Experience defining product metrics tied to user value Ability to communicate clearly with PM, Eng, and Design—and to influence product direction You could be an especially great fit if you have Strong programming background; ability to prototype, run simulations, and reason about code quality Familiarity with IDE/extensi
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About the Team OpenAI’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 Role As 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 will Embed with the Platform product team as a trusted partner, uncovering ways to improve developer experience, reliability, and usage growth Define north-star metrics across the developer funnel (activation, retention, growth), as well as latency/cost guardrails for new features and models Design 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 teams Translate product learnings into actionable feedback for Research (e.g., failure modes, eval gaps, model response quality) You might thrive in this role if you have 5+ 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 experiments Experience defining and operationalizing metrics from scratch (including reliability/latency/cost and safety) Strong cross-functional communication with PMs, enginee
About the Team The Applied organization brings OpenAI’s most advanced technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the APIs that power a growing ecosystem of developer and enterprise applications. Data Engineering builds and operates the trustworthy, secure, and reliable data systems that power decisions across OpenAI. About the Role We’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead the Growth & Revenue data engineering team. This leader will own the data strategy and execution for the data subject areas spanning growth accounting across all product surfaces, product partnerships, checkout, billing, payments, revenue, and monetization, helping OpenAI understand how people adopt, engage with, and pay for our products. You will partner closely with several Data Science, Business, and Engineering partners to connect product behavior to trustworthy subscriber, payment, and revenue measurement. In this role, you will: Build, manage, and grow a high-performing, inclusive team across the Growth & Revenue data subject areas. Define the data strategy for all the data subject areas you own. Deliver durable, well-modeled data products that connect product behavior, subscription state, checkout events, payment outcomes, and revenue. Establish trusted metric definitions and data quality standards so product, growth, finance, and executive leaders can make fast, consistent decisions. Partner with Data Science and Product teams to support experimentation, causal measurement, funnel analysis, and scalable self-serve analytics. Partner with Finance and Financial Engineering to ensure analytical revenue views reconcile to financial truth and production billing systems. Raise operational excellence for critical pipelines, including reliability, observability, privacy, governance, and incident response. Set a clear roadmap, make principled tradeoffs, and communicate progress and risk across technical and business stakeholders. You might thrive in this role if yo
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Credit, a critical product area within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. You’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders, helping shape Credit product strategy, improve product performance and user experience, and grow Plaid’s consumer network. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and KPIs tied to business goals and user experiences, a
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team The Fraud Partnerships Pod is responsible for overseeing all traditional business development and partnerships for the Anti-Fraud Product Area (PA) at Plaid, focusing primarily on our product partnerships and data acquisition (supply side) efforts. The team supports all products under the Fraud Product Area's purview: IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect. About the Role You will have an opportunity to lead the strategy and execution of our supply side and "data in" efforts for our Fraud product area across four products (Plaid IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect). You will own all critical data partner relationship management with key stakeholders and be expected to grow them over time. You will be the internal quarterback driving alignment with key major internal stakeholders at Plaid, including Finance, BizOps, Commercial, Legal, and Risk. What You'll Do Spend the majority of your time working hand in hand with product leadership as well as other cross-functional leaders to operationalize our data partners for all fraud products at Plaid. Help our data science and research teams define the source data ecosystem for IDV and Protect according to our 3-year strategy. Help e
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE This is a sourcing-first role, not a deal-closing role. Baseten needs someone who can build and maintain deep relationships across the long tail of data center and powered land providers, well beyond the handful of large, well-known players that everyone in the market is already competing for. This coverage area is a key differentiator for Baseten's broader compute strategy, so we're looking for the best possible person in this specific lane rather than a generalist. You'll own the full lifecycle of a sourcing relationship — from first outreach to ongoing management — not just the introduction. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build and maintain a comprehensive map of data center and powered land opportunities, with a particular focus on the long tail rather than the handful of major, oversubscribed players Own the full sourcing lifecycle for each relationship — from identifying and reaching out to new providers, through negotiation support, to ongoing relationship management — not just the initial introduction Develop and manage sourcing relationships across neoclouds, hyperscalers, brokers, and independent operators Quickly and independently evaluate new sites and spaces to determine fit and priority Prepare business cases and cost analysis to support new data center and powered land opportunities, partnering with Finance where needed Maintain accurate records of suppliers, contracts, and commercial terms so the team has a reli
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life. We are a central team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. We embed with partner teams to build and apply machine learning models that improve internal decision-making and power the Plaid product suite. About the Role You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team, part of Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone for a team supporting a diverse set of internal and external products. You will help drive better decision-making, support machine learning model development, and contribute directly to the health of the Plaid network and the quality of Plaid’s products. Your day-to-day work will include: Analyzing entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks. Creating foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems that provide a clear view of network health and machine learning model performance. Evaluating the value and performance of machine learni
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're hiring a Product Data Scientist to establish how product decisions at Baseten are made with data. You'll work directly with Product and Engineering, alongside GTM to determine measurement, strategy, experimentation and implementation. This is a foundational, hands-on role. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape product strategy. You'll work from clickstream and product events through inference telemetry and observability data, helping Baseten make faster decisions about reliability, performance, adoption and developer experience. RESPONSIBILITIES Partner directly with Product and Engineering: frame the questions that matter, define success criteria, and turn analysis into roadmap, launch, and prioritization decisions. Define how product success is measured: establish metrics across activation, adoption, retention, expansion, reliability and user experience. Support experimentation and launches: design measurement plans, analyze A/B experiments and controlled rollouts, and translate results into product decisions. Diagnose reliability and scaling behavior: join customer signals with request, replica, deployment, and cluster telemetry to find patterns in release bottlenecks, unhealthy replicas, and models without traffic. Define the enterprise customer journey and measure feature adoption
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build and scale our internal analytics capabilities. This is a foundational role where you’ll create dashboards, data models and insights to power business and product teams alike. You’ll collect requirements, define key metrics, and deliver insights directly to stakeholders. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape Baseten’s product and strategy. RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain production-grade dbt models and dashboards across multiple functions with a focus on accuracy, simplicity and user experience. Define and instrument core metrics around ROI, product adoption, customer lifecycle, capacity, availability, revenue and costs. Ingest and transform raw data using tools like dbt, Airbyte, and BigQuery. Partner with Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to understand goals and translate them into data solutions REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analysis, analytics, data science or a related role Advanced SQL and dbt skills, with a record of building models, tests, semantic layers and lineage in a cloud data warehouse. Prior experience supporting complex cross-functional projects across GTM, Finance and Engineering across various stages of the customer journey. Experience building dashboards and self-serve analy
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Data Engineer to build and scale Baseten’s internal data platform. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and data science, transforming raw product and business data into reliable datasets that power decision-making. You’ll design the data models, pipelines, and analytics infrastructure that enable teams across Product, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales to understand usage and performance. This includes working with AI inference, infrastructure, and observability data to generate insights about the product, business operations and platform economics. You’ll partner closely with stakeholders to build robust, scalable pipelines, define company-wide metrics that inform strategy and planning. RESPONSIBILITIES Design and maintain core data models and semantic layers Develop and orchestrate batch and streaming data pipelines using technologies such as Apache Beam, Kafka, Airflow, or similar frameworks Analyze inference and infrastructure telemetry , including data from OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and other observability tools Define and maintain company-wide metrics across product usage, performance, and customer lifecycle Enable self-service analytics through agents and tools, with well-structured semantic layers and context Ensure data reliability and quality through testing, documentation, and governance PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Understanding of inference metrics s
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Making data-driven decisions is key to Plaid's culture. To support that, we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide golden datasets and tooling to teams across engineering, product, and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need, which ultimately helps Plaid serve our customers more effectively. In addition, Plaid will not be successful if we can't move quickly. We build the data systems and tools that enable everyone at Plaid to be data-driven, making analytics easy, obvious, and proactive across the company. Data Engineers heavily leverage SQL and Python to build data workflows that integrate with our Golang applications. We use tools like DBT, Airflow, Redshift, Atlan, and Retool to orchestrate data pipelines and define workflows. We work with engineers, product managers, business intelligence, data analysts, and many other teams to build Plaid's data strategy and a data-first mindset. You will be in a high impact role that will directly enable business leaders to make faster and more informed business judgements based on the datasets you build. You will have the opportunity to carve out the ownershi
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Senior Data Scientist supporting Plaid App, a critical user-facing product within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. In this role, you’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development as the team launches and scales the product from 0 to 1. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and metrics tied to business goals, and support feature ship decisions through experimenta
About the Team Our Applied team brings OpenAI technologies to consumers and businesses around the world. We collaborate across research, engineering, design and business functions to turn cutting-edge AI advancements into impactful real-world applications. Our team has been behind notable product launches ( ChatGPT , API , Sora ), creating tools that help developers write code, enable businesses to operate more efficiently, and empower individuals to learn and create. As AI capabilities rapidly evolve, we focus on ensuring that our products are safe, accessible, and beneficial to all. About the Role As a Data Scientist on the Applied Product team, you will contribute to a data-driven product development culture for consumer and enterprise products at OpenAI. This is critical as our products reach millions of users and businesses worldwide. We are focused on aligning both research and product development to drive measurable impact for these individuals and organizations alike. You should expect to define our north-star metrics, design A/B tests, and establish source-of-truth dashboards that the entire company can use to answer their own product questions. Most importantly, you should expect to be a core member of the product development team. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. 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 will: Embed with the product development team as a trusted partner, uncovering new ways to improve the product and drive growth Define and interpret A/B tests that help answer critical questions about the impact of model and UX changes to our product Establish a data-driven product development culture by defining, tracking, and operationalizing feature-, product-, and company-level metrics Develop and socialize dashboards, reports, and other ways of enabling the team and company to answer product data questions in a self-serve way You might thrive
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Making data driven decisions is key to Plaid's culture. To support that, we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide tooling and guidance to teams across engineering, product, and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need, which ultimately helps Plaid serve our customers more effectively. Engineers on Data Infrastructure are domain experts in Data Warehouse, Data Lakehouse, Spark, Workflow Orchestration, and Streaming technologies. We scale our existing data pipelines in a performant and cost efficient way while creating the necessary abstractions to make developing on top of this platform extremely simple for other engineers at Plaid. Responsibilities Contribute towards the long-term technical roadmap for data-driven and machine learning iteration at Plaid Leading key data infrastructure projects such as improving ML development golden paths, implementing offline streaming solutions for data freshness, building net new ETL pipeline infrastructure, and evolving data warehouse or data lakehouse capabilities. Working with stakeholders in other teams and functions to define technical roadmaps for key backe
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Data Governance team makes sure Plaid handles consumer and customer data responsibly — and can prove it. Our mission is to enforce Plaid's privacy commitments and regulatory obligations in the systems themselves rather than in policy documents: we build the platform and controls that govern how data flows through Plaid — where it lives, who can use it, for what purpose, and for how long. That includes verifiable deletion of consumer data on request, enforcement of data-use restrictions so downstream systems can only use data in permitted ways, and the cataloging and classification that let Plaid know what data it holds and how sensitive it is. We operate at the scale of Plaid's entire data footprint, and correctness and auditability matter to us as much as throughput. As a Staff Software Engineer on Data Governance, you will set the technical direction for how Plaid enforces data governance at scale. You'll lead the design of distributed backend systems that reliably delete, restrict, and track data across dozens of services, making architectural decisions whose blast radius spans the whole company. You'll drive multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguous privacy and regulatory requirements through
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