Data Engineer, ChatGPT Growth

San Francisco, California, United States

About the Team:

The ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to consumers and businesses.

We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the role:

We're looking for our first Data Engineer to help drive our product analytics and growth. If you love working with data, and creating solutions that drive critical business decisions and product development, you might be a great fit. ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing products in Silicon Valley history, and we hope to further accelerate our growth with data-derived insights.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build and manage our data pipelines, ensuring all user event data is seamlessly integrated into our data warehouse.
• Develop canonical datasets to track key product metrics including user growth, engagement, and revenue.
• Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Infrastructure, Data Science, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Research to understand their data needs and provide solutions.
• Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing.
• Participate in data architecture and engineering decisions, bringing your strong experience and knowledge to bear.
• Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data according to industry and company standards.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and 8+ years of any software engineering experience(including data engineering).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Flink and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3).
• Expertise with any of ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or similar frameworks.
• Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code. 

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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. 

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

The annual salary range for this role is $245,000 – $370,000. Total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Mental health and wellness support
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching
• Unlimited time off and 18+ company holidays per year
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend ($1,500 per year)

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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