About the Team The Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models. Pushing the boundaries of data, scaling laws, optimization techniques, model architectures, and efficiency improvements to propel our science. The Search team sits within Foundations, building agentic search by co-designing model–system interfaces with the core search stack (serving, indexing, retrieval) to translate model intent into reliable, real-world actions. Operating at the frontier of AI and information retrieval, the team develops large-scale systems that transform and index vast corpora, enabling models to reason over global knowledge and act dependably. In close partnership with researchers, we rapidly bring modeling breakthroughs into production and redefine how intelligent systems discover, retrieve, and synthesize information at planetary scale. About the Role We’re looking for a Software Engineer focused on building and scaling retrieval systems. You’ll work with a team of researchers and engineers to develop infrastructure that enables models to retrieve and act on the right information at the right time. This includes designing and operating indexing systems, retrieval pipelines, and serving layers. This work supports retrieval across OpenAI products and research, with direct impact on system performance, reliability, and scale. Responsibilities Build and scale retrieval infrastructure across indexing, serving, and query execution. Develop low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time model interaction. Partner with research to productionize embedding and retrieval techniques. Support dense, sparse, and hybrid retrieval pipelines. Own system performance, reliability, and observability at scale. Collaborate across Pretraining, Inference, and Product teams to integrate retrieval end-to-e
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a User Researcher on the Economy team, reporting directly to the Director of Design Strategy & Operations, you will generate actionable qualitative and quantitative insights that shape core economic systems, developer monetization workflows, and immersive brand experiences. Embedded directly on product teams, you will conduct generative and evaluative research centered on how creators build businesses, how brands interact on the platform, and how users participate in virtual economies. You will tackle high-priority features, solve complex behavioral puzzles, and help translate multi-faceted economic infrastructure into intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable experiences. Partnering closely with Product, Product Design, Engineering, Data Science, and Policy, you will ensure user needs directly inform platform decisions while driving mutual value across players, creators, and brands. You will: Execute end-to-end mixed-methods research projects to understand creator monetization, payouts, advertising, and commerce workflows, translating abstract user behaviors into clear product feature recommendations. Conduct foundational research to uncover key user pain points, mental models, and behav
$230K – $325K/yr
About the Team OpenAI’s Safety teams work to ensure our products are safe, trusted, and resilient as frontier AI systems scale globally. We tackle some of the company’s most important challenges across understanding and preventing misuse and misalignment, intercepting fraud and abuse, and protecting vulnerable users. We are hiring Data Scientists to help build the analytical foundations that allow OpenAI to deploy increasingly capable AI responsibly. We are hiring Data Scientists across several teams that contribute to safety in different ways, including: Safety Systems Integrity Product Policy This is a high-impact role operating at the intersection of product, safety, policy, and research. About the Role As a Data Scientist, Safety, you will help solve complex and ambiguous problems where rigorous analysis directly informs critical decisions. Depending on your background and team alignment, you may work on areas such as: Measure harmful or abusive behavior across OpenAI’s products Detect fraud, manipulation, coordinated misuse Evaluate and improve safety classifiers, rules systems, mitigation systems, and human review workflows Design experiments and causal analyses to understand product, policy, and mitigation impacts Build prevalence estimators, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive decision frameworks Diagnose gaps in safety and integrity systems using behavioral and product data, and help quantify and navigate false positive / false negative tradeoffs Translate ambiguous safety risks into measurable problems and evidence-based recommendations Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Research, and Operations teams to improve safety outcomes Build zero-to-one analytical systems in rapidly evolving domains Ideal Candidate We’re looking for strong Data Scientists who thrive in ambiguous, high-leverage environments. You may be a fit if you have: Strong statistical reasoning and analytical judgment Experience with experimentation, causal inference, or obse
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
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
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
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. Plaid’s Consumer team owns all of Plaid’s consumer facing surfaces. This includes Link, Plaid’s flagship product, which has been used by over half of all US adults to share their information safely and securely with financial applications. Link drives the vast majority of Plaid’s revenue. We’re also building out Plaid’s first B2C product, which is an exciting, 0-1 space for us. Both areas are top business priorities. As the Link Growth PM, you will own conversion at Plaid and evolve it for a growingly agentic world. Link is the front door to Plaid’s products, so this is a meaningfully large responsibility: (1) Any improvement in Link conversion has direct revenue impact, and (2) We’re seeing a massive uptick in AI-companies launching fintech products, so making Link compatible for their use cases is one of our highest priorities. Responsibilities Define the roadmap for sign up for quarterly / half year goals and partner with cross-functional team to hit them Drive prioritization and execution (build, measure, iterate) Identify opportunities through consumer feedback and staying close to our data / dashboards Partner with cross-functional team (design, research, data science, ML, l
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. Plaid’s Consumer team owns all of Plaid’s consumer facing surfaces. This includes Link, Plaid’s flagship product, which has been used by over half of all US adults to share their information safely and securely with financial applications. Link drives the vast majority of Plaid’s revenue. We’re also working on some exciting, 0-1 consumer initiatives. Both areas are top business priorities. As part of Plaid’s first Consumer team, you will lead product development and execution within a startup-like environment at Plaid. Responsibilities Define an ambitious vision / roadmap, sign up for quarterly / half year goals, and partner with the cross-functional team to hit them Drive prioritization and execution (build, measure, iterate) Identify opportunities through consumer feedback and staying close to our data / dashboards Partner with cross-functional team (design, research, data science, legal, and compliance) to do all of the above Qualifications You have successfully launched large consumer facing features driving meaningful outcomes at B2C companies You start with the consumer problem and have held a high bar for consumer experience You naturally gravitate towards using data to mak
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. Plaid’s Product team builds the network that powers the future of financial services. Our mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone through open finance. Product Managers at Plaid are curious, customer-obsessed, and move quickly to deliver value. They take ownership, sweat the details, and make sound decisions with imperfect information. As a Product Manager on the AI Foundations team, you will drive Plaid’s AI strategy by building the data and intelligence layer that powers smarter financial experiences. You will work across engineering, data science, and research to develop scalable AI systems—from core embeddings and representation learning to applied model integrations that enhance developer and consumer outcomes. This role is for an experienced PM who thrives at the intersection of AI and platform products. You are technically fluent, strategic, and execution-oriented. You enjoy turning advanced machine-learning capabilities into reliable, trusted infrastructure that scales across Plaid’s ecosystem. Responsibilities AI Platform Vision: Define the strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Plaid’s core AI and data foundation, enabling smarter, more adaptive financial products across th
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. Plaid’s Consumer team owns all of Plaid’s consumer facing surfaces. This includes Link, Plaid’s flagship product, which has been used by over half of all US adults to share their information safely and securely with financial applications. Link drives the vast majority of Plaid’s revenue. We’re also working on some exciting, 0-1 consumer initiatives. Both areas are top business priorities. As part of Plaid’s first Consumer team, you will lead product development and execution within a startup-like environment at Plaid. Responsibilities Define an ambitious vision / roadmap, sign up for quarterly / half year goals, and partner with the cross-functional team to hit them Drive prioritization and execution (build, measure, iterate) Identify opportunities through consumer feedback and staying close to our data / dashboards Partner with cross-functional team (design, research, data science, legal, and compliance) to do all of the above Qualifications You have successfully launched large consumer facing features driving meaningful outcomes at B2C companies You start with the consumer problem and have held a high bar for consumer experience You naturally gravitate towards using data to make strategic decisio
About the Team The Applied team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products. About the Role We are seeking Software Engineers (Emerging Talent) to join our Applied Engineering team. You’ll work in a highly iterative, collaborative, fast-paced environment to bring our technology to millions of users around the world, and ensure it’s delivered with safety and reliability in mind. We value engineers who are self-starters, care deeply about the end user experience, and take pride in building products to solve customer needs. In this role, you will: Own the development of new customer-facing ChatGPT and OpenAI API features and product experiences end-to-end Talk to users to understand their problems and design solutions to address them Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and operations folks to create cutting-edge products Optimize applications for speed and scale Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome. Your background looks something like: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 0-1 years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and some backend languages (we use Python) Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required) Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadl
$68.6K – $114.3K/yr
Why Patients Need You Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best-in-class medicines to patients around the world. What You Will Achieve As an Associate Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you’ll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. In this role, you will join a team of scientists focused on optimizing biologics reagents for vaccine programs. Your primary role is to support, assist and deliver reagents for nonclinical and clinical targets within Vaccines. Likewise, you’re expected to have a strong foundation in general scientific practice and the principles and concepts that will support meeting critical deadlines. You will be performing aseptic serological processing, preparation of buffers, and growing bacterial cultures, as necessary. All work is to be done in a compliant manner according to relevant SOP guidelines and GLP and/or GMP guidelines, as required. How You Will Achieve It Perform aseptic serological processing, reagent preparation, and bacterial culture growth to support high throughput clinical and nonclinical testing in Vaccines. Complete all work in compliance with SOPs, safety guidelines, and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) requirements. Utilize time management, organization, detail orientation, and strong interpersonal skills to effectively perform tasks to support clinical immunology and diagnostics. Complete ad h
About the Team Our economics team is continuously working to improve our understanding of an AI-driven economy. About the Role We are seeking a highly technical Economist to join the OpenAI Economic Research team studying the real-world economic impacts of AI. This role is designed for economists with up to 5 years of professional experience post-Ph.D. who are interested in using novel, large-scale datasets to study how AI is reshaping economic systems. We are looking for candidates with deep expertise in at least one core domain relevant to AI’s economic impact, and an interest in contributing to a broader research agenda spanning labor markets, firm behavior, market dynamics, and macroeconomic change. This is an individual contributor role where the candidate will organize and execute on their own data-oriented projects. You will work at the intersection of economic research, data science, and public policy to produce rigorous empirical work that informs decision-makers across the public, industry, and government. Research Areas of Interest We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas: Economic Measurement of AI Impact (e.g., adoption trajectories, labor market transitions, productivity growth, and forecasting/scenario modeling for AI-driven economic change) Macroeconomic Implications of AI (e.g., productivity, technology diffusion, economic growth) AI and the Labor Market (e.g., employment, wages, job search, task-level impacts, skill acquisition) Applicants are not expected to have experience across all domains. We aim to build a team with complementary strengths across these areas. In this role, you will: Design and execute empirical research using large-scale observational or experimental data. Apply causal inference and/or structural modeling techniques to study AI-driven economic change. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research questions into testable frameworks and applic
From $232K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts. They deeply understand the needs of our users and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research. They partner with talented cross-functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision. They are incredibly detail-oriented and hands on. The Difference You Will Make: Airbnb is seeking an exceptional product manager to reimagine how guests search on Airbnb. Search is the front door to the entire guest experience — the moment someone tells us what they want and we have to understand it, then show them the right options in the right order. Today that means query understanding, filtering, and ranking. Tomorrow it means next-generation AI capabilities that let guests search more naturally, get better matches with less effort, and trust that Airbnb understood what they were actually looking for. In this role, you will own the vision and roadmap for the future of search at Airbnb — pushing beyond keyword and filter-based search toward more intelligent, conversational, and personalized ways for guests to find their perfect stay. You'll partner closely with engineering, design, and data science teams to bring new AI-powered search capabilities from concept to guests. This is a high-visibility role building one of the most consequential surfaces in the guest experience, and will regularly interface with senior engineering and leade
From $200K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts. They deeply understand the needs of our users and our business, and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research. They partner with talented cross-functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision. They are incredibly detail-oriented and hands on. The Difference You Will Make: As Product Manager for Identity, you will help set the strategy and drive execution of mission-critical identity verification systems and experiences. Airbnb is special in that it’s a platform that brings people together. You’ll shape how we build trust between guests and hosts on Airbnb and beyond, and build an identity platform that will enable all the different ways we want our guests and hosts to interact on Airbnb now and into the future—and in the process, help create the most trusted community of travelers in the world. A Typical Day: Define and drive the roadmap for Identity on Airbnb — including mission-critical identity verification technologies and flows, new identity-related features, and extending the value of a verified identity beyond the immediate Airbnb platform. Make prioritization calls that balance multiple competing objectives: trust, guest experience, booking success, and overall marketplace health. Partner with design, engineering, and policy teams to collaboratively drive execution of the roadmap you
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