Analytics Engineer, People Data

About the Team

OpenAI's People team aims to hire, engage, and retain world-class talent who will safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The People Systems team is an important subset of People Operations and is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing our HR technology to support a rapidly growing employee population.

About the Role

You'll be the hands-on owner of our People analytics database-modeling, transforming, testing, and documenting HR data to deliver trustworthy data foundations that power our data products and analytics, including self-serve insights.

This role is about applied data modeling and DataOps with tight stakeholder loops. Your scope centers on correctness, velocity and scale, with strong privacy and governance. This role reports to our Head of People Experience & Technology.

Your Responsibilities:

• Build and own canonical People data models (employee, org/role, movement, recruiting funnel, comp history, mobility) in dbt with SCD handling, tests, docs, and data contracts.

• Partner with Data Platform/IT to ingest HRIS/ATS/Payroll/ID data; own the T in ELT (dbt), tests, and data contracts.

• Define a metrics/semantic layer and ship curated marts for the Head of People Analytics; enable self-serve via BI (Looker/Mode/Hex/Tableau).

• Implement privacy-by-design (PII minimization, RBAC), lineage, and governance in partnership with Legal/Privacy/Security.

• Manage analytics CI/CD (Git, code review, environments, releases) and maintain runbooks, dictionaries, and lineage docs.

We're Seeking:

• 5+ years as a HR IT, Analytics or Data Engineer (or equivalent) delivering production-grade HR data models and durable data products (governed marts, semantic layers, APIs etc.)

• Expert SQL; deep experience with dbt and dimensional/event-temporal modeling.

• Proficient in Python for transforms/automation (not ML platform work).

• Hands-on with a cloud warehouse (Snowflake/BigQuery) and an orchestrator (Dagster/Prefect/Airflow).

• Track record integrating HRIS/ATS/payroll/identity sources and hardening metrics for exec-level decisions.

• Strong stakeholder communication; asks the right questions to understand the business context and build optimal data foundations.

• Working knowledge of GDPR/CCPA, data minimization, and access management.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

While we aren't actively considering remote applications, we do encourage you to apply anyways for future remote opportunities. Please indicate your preferred working locations in your application.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Compensation Range: $220K