# Data Scientist, Preparedness

About the Team The Preparedness team is an important part of the Safety Systems org at OpenAI, and is guided by OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework. Frontier AI models have the potential to benefit all of humanity, but also pose increasingly severe risks. To ensure that AI promotes positive change, the Preparedness team helps us prepare for the development of increasingly capable frontier AI models. This team is tasked with identifying, tracking, and preparing for catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models. The mission of the Preparedness team is to: Closely monitor and predict the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems, with an eye towards misuse risks whose impact could be catastrophic to our society Ensure we have concrete procedures, infrastructure and partnerships to mitigate these risks and to safely handle the development of powerful AI systems Preparedness tightly connects capability assessment, evaluations, and internal red teaming, and mitigations for frontier models, as well as overall coordination on AGI preparedness. This is fast paced, exciting work that has far reaching importance for the company and for society. About the Role We’re hiring a Data Scientist

- **Id**: 3878116
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-data-scientist-preparedness-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T15:01:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:01:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6870
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Information Security, Code Intelligence, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.829
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 265000
- **Max**: 380000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 380000

## Technologies

- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T17:14:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 380000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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