Senior Data Engineer, Core Experimentation
OpenAI · Seattle, WA · Applied AI
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 careersAbout 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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