At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About OpenAI
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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About the role
- As a Data Program Manager, Science, you will help researchers develop and execute scientific data programs, connecting OpenAI’s research priorities with relevant data, expertise and external partners.
- The work could range from acquiring existing datasets to shaping research collaborations, carrying opportunities from initial investigation through commercial discussions, agreements, delivery and research use.
Responsibilities
- Develop data strategies with Research, translating research goals, model limitations and evaluation gaps into evidence needs and success criteria.
- Find distinctive sources for research by building trusted local and international relationships across research and industry.
- Assess opportunities in scientific context by inspecting samples for provenance, context, quality and completeness.
- Shape partnerships with lasting scientific value by defining pilots, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead commercial and operational execution, developing proposals, assessing pricing, and negotiating terms.
- Navigate sensitive collaborations by understanding institutional interests, confidentiality, and identifying ethical, privacy, security, and misuse concerns early.
- Follow through into research use by coordinating preparation, ingestion, access, and documentation, and gathering researcher feedback.
- Make thoughtful portfolio decisions by recommending options based on research value, cost, timing, and capacity.
- Make the work more repeatable by using code, APIs, automation, and AI tools to improve sourcing, assessment, and delivery.
Requirements
- Substantial grounding in biology, chemistry or related sciences through research, industry or equivalent experience.
- Delivered complex scientific, data or partnership projects with depth in scientific data and evaluation, commercial partnerships, or research collaborations.
- Work directly with data by inspecting unfamiliar files, investigating quality and using Python, SQL, APIs and AI-assisted coding.
Workplace
- This role is based in our San Francisco HQ.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- APIs
