Data Scientist, Financial Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Data Science
About this role
OpenAI is hiring a mid-level Data Scientist based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, Rails, A/B Testing and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $230,000–$385,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Scientist
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Data Science
- Posted
- Sep 30, 2025
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Job description
from OpenAI careersAbout the Team
OpenAI’s Financial Engineering (FinEng) team powers how revenue flows through our products—pricing & packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, and the financial infrastructure behind them. We partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to make paying for OpenAI products seamless, reliable, and efficient worldwide.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist on FinEng, you’ll own the analytics and experimentation that improve our checkout and payments, subscriptions, and pricing & monetization systems. You’ll define the metrics that matter, build the source-of-truth data assets, and design experiments that increase conversion, reduce churn and payment failures, and expand global payment method coverage. Your work will directly influence revenue, customer experience, and how we scale internationally.
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
Own checkout & payments analytics and experimentation across methods and locales (e.g., bank transfers, emerging rails), improving conversion while monitoring risk and latency.
Build and run the experimentation program for in-house checkout—define success metrics and guardrails, execute staged rollouts, and use offline incrementality when online tests aren’t feasible.
Create operational visibility and source-of-truth data with FinEng Data Engineering—land team-level metrics, SLAs, and self-serve dashboards that drive proactive action.
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