Data Scientist - Economic Impacts, Policy Research

About the Role

This role will work closely with the Strategy Org and report directly to the Economic Impacts Lead. You will take a lead role in building visibility into what impacts AI is having in the world today and developing tools to forecast future impacts. This will require a unique blend of designing A/B tests and experiments, building evals, and collaborating with partners. 

As a member of our team, you will:

• Embed with partners to set-up and carry-out experiments.
• Define and interpret A/B tests that help answer critical questions about the impact of model and UX changes to our product.
• Develop and socialize dashboards, reports, and other ways of enabling the team and company to answer policy- and impact-relevant.
• Create tools to make our data and findings more accessible for external stakeholders.
• Turn insights from teams across OpenAI into evaluation tools for our systems moving forward.
• Run campaigns to collect and validate findings with external stakeholders.
  
  

We're looking for a blend of:

• 5+ years experience in a quantitative role navigating highly ambiguous environments, ideally as a data scientist or research economist
• Proposed, designed, and run rigorous experiments with clear insights utilizing SQL and Python
• Demonstrated prior experience in NLP, large language models, or generative AI
• Experience validating quantitative insights with qualitative methods (e.g. surveys, UXR)
• Experience in government or policy-adjacent worlds a plus