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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s People team hires, engages, and retains world-class talent to safely build and deploy AGI that benefits all of humanity. The People Analytics team helps leaders make rigorous, evidence-based talent decisions and ensures that the systems supporting those decisions are valid, reliable, fair, and accountable. About the Role As a People Data Scientist focused on AI fairness and bias testing, you will help establish how OpenAI evaluates AI-assisted People systems and high-impact talent processes. You will design and conduct rigorous assessments to identify, measure, and mitigate potential bias across the lifecycle of models, agents, decision-support tools, and automated workflows. Your work will span the entire employee life-cycle, such as hiring, performance, promotion, employee development, workforce planning, etc. You will evaluate both technical systems and the broader human-AI decision processes in which they operate, examining not only model performance but also data quality, measurement validity, differential outcomes, human oversight, and unintended consequences. We’re looking for an experienced data scientist or applied researcher who can translate complex fairness questions into defensible evaluation strategies, scalable testing infrastructure, and clear recommendations for technical teams and senior leaders. This role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: Define and lead fairness and bias-testing strategies for AI-assisted People processes, models, agents, and decision-support systems from development through deployment and ongoing monitoring. Design rigorous algorithmic audits and validation studies, including adverse-impact analysis, subgroup and intersectional evaluation, error-rate analysis, calibration, measurement invariance, reliability, criterion-related validity, and sensitivity testing. Identify the appropriate fairness criteria for each use case, evaluate tradeoffs among competing definitions

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s People team hires, engages, and retains world-class talent to safely build and deploy AGI that benefits all of humanity. The People Analytics team helps leaders make better, evidence-based talent decisions. About the Role As a People Research Scientist, you will bring deep expertise in research design, measurement, experimentation, and applied data science to OpenAI’s most important People programs. You will design studies, evaluate people processes, and help leaders better empower employees, strengthen organizational systems, and deliver exceptional employee experiences. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role combining hands-on research, methodological leadership, and scalable people science capabilities. We’re looking for an experienced researcher who can turn ambiguous People questions into rigorous designs, validated insights, and actionable recommendations. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA, with occasional travel to our San Francisco office. What You’ll Do: Design rigorous research and evaluation strategies for recruiting, organizational health, manager effectiveness, employee experience, and talent outcomes. Apply advanced statistical modeling, machine learning, and research methods to inform program design, evaluate effectiveness, and quantify business impact. Partner with People Operations, data engineering, and people systems teams to define data requirements, improve data quality, establish documentation standards, and ensure research datasets are governed, reproducible, and privacy-preserving. Build scalable people science infrastructure, including self-service agentic tools, automated validation workflows, reusable research datasets and analytical pipelines. Develop research playbooks that establish rigorous standards for study design, measurement, validation, and documentation, enabling high-quality, repeatable, and scalable research across the organization. Communicate findings through c

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📍 New York New York United States, United States
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Job Description We are looking to hire an experienced strategist to join Citi Equity Trading Strategy (CETS) team in New York with a focus on thematic investing. The team is responsible for providing market commentary on the global equity markets, including tactical market analysis. CETS combines macro, equity and derivatives viewpoints to make directional and relative value trading calls alongside medium-term thematic views. The candidate will be a key contributor to, and communicator of, views to Citi’s trading platform, institutional clients and the Citi Private Bank. Additionally, the US CETS Strategist will partner with the US and global CETS and research teams. Key Responsibilities: Contribute to building and executing a fundamentally based framework for thematic investment. Primarily for custom baskets, but also including sectors, ETFs and related products Coverage of US equity market, including top-down analysis of valuation, earnings, options markets, sector recommendations and trade ideas Thought leadership for US equity trading & sales Generate formal client recognition for Citi’s US equity strategy product via client votes and external poll rankings <span style="color

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📍 Ny Nyc Metro, United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community Humana is a publicly traded, Fortune 60 health benefits company with a long history of successful innovation and reinvention. It has transformed itself from the largest US nursing home company in the ’60s, to the largest US hospital corporation in the ’80s, to a leading health benefits company beginning in the ’90s. Today, Humana is a leader in consumer-focused health solutions and is one of the largest health benefits organizations in the country. The Enterprise Growth Strategy team is a newly created organization supporting growth across Humana’s businesses. The team has a strong dotted-line partnership with the Medicare and Medicaid organization, Humana’s largest, which comprises over 80% of the company’s total revenue and the majority of its earnings. Team members partner with the senior leaders of the business unit, and more broadly with leaders throughout the enterprise, as they deliver strategy projects addressing some of the businesses’ most important opportunities and challenges. These high-profile strategy projects place the team at the forefront of helping to define the future of Humana’s largest businesses. Humana is seeking an experienced team member to support delivering some of Medicare and Medicaid’s highest priority projects and initiatives, with an emphasis on Medicare Advantage strategy development. As a Manager, you will deconstruct issues and challenges, perform targeted research and analysis, and craft sound, logical solutions and recommendations. You will also shape implementation considerations, and work with business owners as appropriate to transition analysis into execution. While doing so, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow team members, subject matter experts, members of Humana’s executive Management Team, and corporate, functional, and business unit leaders. </s

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📍 Connecticut, United States
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$79.4K – $132.4K/yr

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Use Your Power for Purpose At Pfizer, our purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Your work will leverage cutting-edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and deliver best-in-class medicines to patients globally. Whether you are involved in discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy, or supporting clinical trials, your contributions will be vital in helping Pfizer achieve new milestones and make a global impact on patient health. What You Will Achieve As a 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. You will be recognized as a technical expert and a scientific contributor. With your deep knowledge of the discipline, you will be an active team member whose decisions impact the projects. You will perform qualitative and quantitative analyses of organic and inorganic compounds to determine chemical and physical properties during chemical syntheses, or drug product development process. You will be using your scientific judgment to adapt standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience. You will be forecasting and planning resource requirements for your project team. Your creativity in developing novel processes and new ideas will be used frequently. You will undertake mentoring activities to guide team members. It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe. How You Will Achieve It This colleague will be responsible for developing analytical strategies in support of pharmaceutical drug substance and/or drug products during all development phases, including supporting manufacturing process development, developing, validating and transferring analytical methods, designing stab

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📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for talented systems developers and researchers to join the Snowflake AI Research team and advance the state of the art in LLM inference systems and optimization . Our mission is to build the next generation of high-performance and intelligent inference systems . We optimize not only how fast and efficiently models run, but also how quickly inference systems can adapt to new models, architectures, hardware, and workloads. Our work spans the full inference stack—from distributed serving and runtime systems to GPU kernels and model-system co-design. We explore techniques such as adaptive parallelism, speculative and parallel decoding, disaggregated inference, scheduling and batching, KV-cache optimization, model swapping, quantization, and GPU kernel optimization to push the frontier of latency, throughput, scalability, and cost. Beyond optimizing individual models, we are building intelligent and adaptive inference systems that can automate performance optimization—rapidly profiling new models and workloads, identifying bottlenecks, selecting effective execution strategies, and adapting system configurations with minimal manual tuning. We embrace AI-native engineering , using AI not only as the workload we optimize, but also as a tool to accelerate system deve

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the role ChatGPT is changing quickly and so is the market around it. We are looking for a brand strategist who can set direction across a portfolio of important, rapidly changing questions about ChatGPT. We want to help people better understand what ChatGPT stands for, why people should choose it, and how it can become a more useful part of their lives. You will turn complex product, audience, and market signals into clear choices, differentiated positions, and compelling creative work. The remit spans positioning, audience understanding, product and brand storytelling, and creative strategy. Your role is to help connect those areas into a coherent view of how ChatGPT should show up over time. OpenAI has a high-agency culture, and this is an especially dynamic and proactive team. People who thrive here are extremely comfortable with change. You should get energy from the opportunity to identify the most important problems before they are fully defined, bring the right people together, and create momentum around a clear direction. You will have space to find opportunities, shape priorities, influence product and marketing decisions, and build new approaches where no playbook exists. Expect the work to be hands-on. You will work closely with creative, product, product marketing, research, design, and communications partners, setting direction while staying involved from the first idea through delivery. We are looking for someone already immersed in AI who sees this as a moment they want to help shape. In this role, you will: Set direction for how ChatGPT is positioned in the market and shape its broader story across products, audiences, and moments. Develop differentiated positions grounded in what the product does, what people need, how the category is changing, and where the alternatives fall short. Lead a portfolio of high-impact brand and product marketing work. Identify the questions that matter most, establish priorities across competing opportunities, and

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Product Policy team is responsible for the development, implementation, enforcement, and communication of the policies that govern use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, GPTs, the GPT Store, Codex, and the OpenAI API. About the Role We are looking for a Research and Advisory Partnerships Lead to build and manage the relationships, partnerships, and advisory structures that bring independent external expertise into our product and policy decisions. 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 identify and engage researchers, civil society organizations, subject-matter experts, and other external stakeholders whose perspectives can strengthen how we develop and deploy AI. You will establish and manage advisory councils, develop research partnerships with the academic community, and work closely with internal teams to translate external insights into actionable guidance. This role sits at the intersection of product, policy, research, and governance. It is well suited to someone who is comfortable building relationships across disciplines and designing processes that ensure outside expertise meaningfully informs internal decision-making. This role can be based in San Francisco or New York City. 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: Develop, launch, and manage external advisory councils and other governance mechanisms that provide structured input on product and product policy. Build and maintain relationships with external experts, researchers, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders who can inform high-priority product and product policy decisions. Identify when external consultation can improve internal decision-making, and develop engagement strategies tailored to specific products, policy questions, and emer

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to work on retrieval & search problems across our API and ChatGPT. As the AI landscape has evolved over the last few years, retrieval & search have emerged as key use cases for our models, and we are investing in ensuring that we can offer these search-based product experiences for our users. You will be at the center of our retrieval & search efforts as a company, and the progress you drive here will reach millions of end users. In this role, you will: Work on retrieval & search algorithms and methodologies in close collaboration with our research team, including problems in such domains as document search, enterprise search, knowledge retrieval, and web-scale search. Deploy these search methodologies into production in both the API and ChatGPT to be used by millions of end users. Explore novel research topics in retrieval & search that may inform our product strategy in the medium and long term. Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world You might thrive in this role if you: Have extensive prior experience building and maintaining production machine learning systems. Have prior experience working with vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases Have prior experience building and iterating on internet-scale search systems Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done Have the ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or de

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📍 Connecticut, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +671.4%

$93.6K – $156K/yr

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What You Will Achieve As a Senior 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. You will be recognized as a technical expert and a scientific contributor. With your deep knowledge of the discipline, you will be an active team member whose decisions impact the projects. You will perform qualitative and quantitative analyses of organic and inorganic compounds to determine chemical and physical properties during chemical syntheses, or drug product development process. You will be using your scientific judgment to adapt standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience. You will be forecasting and planning resource requirements for your project team. Your creativity in developing novel processes and new ideas will be used frequently. You will undertake mentoring activities to guide team members. It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe. How You Will Achieve It This colleague will be responsible for developing analytical strategies in support of pharmaceutical drug substance and/or drug products during all development phases, including supporting manufacturing process development, developing, validating and transferring analytical methods, designing stability studies for shelf life assignments, and developing impurity control strategies. Collaborates with colleagues and subject matter experts to assess the most appropriate analytical approach to support project activities, including use of computational predictive tools, modelling software and data visualization tools where appropriate. Perform lab work and delegate responsibilities and review peer lab work as appropriate, Through effective communicat

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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. We are the Data Foundation & AI team within Plaid’s Data organization. Our mission is to build the shared ML and AI infrastructure that powers intelligent capabilities across Plaid’s product suite. We develop the foundational systems, models, and data assets that transform Plaid’s unique financial network data into scalable, general-purpose representations that teams across the company can leverage. Our work spans the full ML lifecycle — from large-scale data curation and model pretraining to production serving, evaluation, and monitoring. As part of the team, you’ll work at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure, applied AI, and distributed systems, helping establish the core AI platform that enables innovation across Plaid. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy and development of Plaid’s foundation models, driving key decisions across pretraining objectives, model architecture, and fine-tuning approaches that power a wide range of downstream product applications. You will serve as the technical lead for the full machine learning lifecycle, overseeing everything from data curation and experimentation to production deployment, feature management,

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Our Internal Communications team helps employees stay informed, connected, and engaged so they can focus on building and deploying safe and impactful AI. We partner across the company to explain what’s being built, why it matters, and how it connects to our strategy and mission. About the Role We’re looking for an internal communications professional to help employees understand the work happening across OpenAI’s research and product organizations. You’ll translate technical developments, product milestones, and team priorities into clear, useful communications that connect people to the work and to one another. Reporting to the Internal Communications lead for Research and Product, you’ll be the second member of the team dedicated to this part of OpenAI. You’ll independently own specific communications programs and projects within the broader strategy, build trusted relationships with technical teams, and identify stories and information employees need to hear. You’ll also help build practical processes that allow a small team to support a broad and fast-moving organization. This role requires strong writing and editing skills, technical curiosity, and sound judgment. You should enjoy asking questions, making sense of complex information, and moving work forward independently, with guidance from your manager on broader strategy and sensitive issues. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own recurring communications programs that help employees understand research and product priorities, progress, and upcoming milestones. Lead communications for defined projects and initiatives, developing plans, gathering input, drafting content, coordinating reviews, and managing delivery. Translate complex technical and research concepts into accurate, accessible

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Product Marketing team shapes how OpenAI brings its research, models, and products to market. We work across Research, Product, Engineering, Sales, Communications, and Marketing to translate technical advances into clear customer value, compelling market narratives, and go-to-market strategies that drive meaningful adoption. About the Role We’re looking for a senior product marketing leader to shape how OpenAI’s models and research are understood and adopted around the world. You’ll work directly with frontier research teams to understand emerging capabilities and translate them into compelling product strategies, market narratives, and customer experiences. Your scope will span frontier models, specialized models for cybersecurity and life sciences, multimodal capabilities, and the API portfolio that makes these systems accessible to developers and businesses. You’ll build and lead the team responsible for helping customers understand what our models can do, how they’re evolving, and how to deploy them responsibly. In this role, you will: Define the product marketing strategy for OpenAI’s models, research advances, and API portfolio. Embed with Research, Product, and Engineering to understand model capabilities, evaluations, limitations, and technical tradeoffs. Shape how OpenAI explains advances in AI to developers, business leaders, and the broader market. Lead positioning, launches, demonstrations, and adoption strategies across frontier, specialized, and multimodal models. Help customers navigate model selection, API access, privacy, security, and responsible deployment. Bring customer and market insights into research and product decisions. Partner with Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and regional teams to develop customer narratives, use cases, and enablement. Work with Communications, Safety, Policy, and Legal to ensure technical claims are accurate and grounded. Build and lead a high-performing product marketing team and define success ac

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization—working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent. About the Role You’ll focus on identifying and engaging world‑class AI researchers and scientists who are advancing the frontier of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this role, you will drive top‑of‑funnel sourcing efforts, build thoughtful outreach strategies, and cultivate long‑term relationships with highly specialized talent across academia and industry to support our Research teams’ hiring ambitions. You’ll work across a range of deeply technical and research‑oriented roles, mapping emerging fields, identifying leading contributors, and proactively engaging experts in their respective domains. You’ll partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and research leaders to surface exceptional candidates, generate strong pipelines for niche searches, and continuously refine sourcing strategies to help our research teams grow and scale. Your Responsibilities: Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision. Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent and cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term. Develop and utilize creative strategies to discover non-traditional, research-adjacent, and/or up and coming talent. Partner closely with hiring managers across OpenAI to develop customized sourcing strategies and advise them on the market. Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics. Represen

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📍 New York, NY, United States
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About the Team Our Advertising & Promotions Marketing team operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, surfacing and monetizing relevant content that benefits our core audiences. We provide digital solutions to help advertisers reach DoorDash audiences. The growing DoorDash ads business will quickly become the single best place for merchants and brands to market to local customers, in an ecosystem that benefits all parties. About the Role Our advertising business is one of the fastest-growing parts of DoorDash. This role exists to ensure our sellers are equipped with the right materials for key conversations with enterprise advertisers. You will own the sales content portfolio for our ads business and design the system that produces it. You will co-create our annual sales narrative with our platform and product marketing partners, and own translating it into the practical materials the field actually uses to win. That covers the content sellers use in front of advertisers: pitch decks, one-pagers, customer proof, and playbooks, along with the research that informs it and the governance that keeps it up to date. You will also develop content for our external advertiser training materials. You will manage a team of four marketers covering Restaurant, CPG, and agency audiences across the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, supporting a field of hundreds of sellers. You will partner with Sales, Product Marketing, Revenue Enablement, Product, and business leaders to develop content. Recurring content maintenance and library administration sit with your team. This role reports to the Sr. Director, Ads Marketing. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build deep fluency in our ads product suite across our Restaurant and CPG offerings, including occasions and co-marketing programs, and translate that expertise into seller storytelling and content. Own the sales content portfolio and design the operating model behind it, applying bran

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