senior Data Engineer ic · Posted May 14, 2026
$293,000 – $325,000
USD per year

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a senior-level Data Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Spark, Airflow, ETL, Dagster. Compensation is listed at $293,000–$325,000 per year.

Role
Data Engineer
Function
data engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Seattle, WA
Department
Applied AI
Posted
May 14, 2026

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About the Team

The Statsig team at OpenAI builds and operates the experimentation platform that powers product development, measurement, and decision-making across the company. We partner closely with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure experiments are trustworthy, statistically rigorous, and scalable to the needs of frontier AI products.

Our mission is to help teams make better decisions through reliable experimentation. We care deeply about statistical correctness, pragmatic solutions, and building systems that researchers and engineers can trust at massive scale. The team operates at the intersection of experimentation methodology, data infrastructure, causal inference, and product analytics.

We are looking for experienced experimentation experts who want to shape the future of experimentation in the AI era.

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