Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Codex sits at the intersection of SaaS product development and applied AI, building a developer-facing tool where usage data and model behavior directly determine product value. A data scientist in this context is not analyzing a stable marketplace so much as helping define what “good” looks like for an emerging category of software, where telemetry, UX decisions, and model quality are tightly coupled.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable experience in product analytics at the point where measurement becomes product strategy. Work like defining productivity metrics, designing experiments, and diagnosing failure modes maps cleanly to modern SaaS teams that rely on instrumentation and iteration to find and defend product-market fit. The emphasis on staged rollouts and self-serve dashboards also reflects how mature SaaS organizations operationalize insight beyond one-off analyses.
This position will suit professionals who prefer close partnership with product and engineering and who are comfortable turning ambiguous questions into measurable frameworks. It is a strong match for someone who enjoys rigorous experimentation, cares about metric integrity, and can communicate tradeoffs clearly across functions in an in-office, collaborative environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
Codex is OpenAI’s first-party developer product focused on agentic software engineering. We’re building tools that help engineers design, write, test, and ship code faster—safely and at scale. We partner tightly with research and product to translate model advances into tangible developer productivity.
About the Role
As a Data Scientist on Codex, you will measure and accelerate product-market fit for AI developer tools. You’ll define what “developer productivity” means for our product, run experiments on new coding models and UX, and pinpoint where the model helps or hurts across languages and tasks. Your insights will directly shape how an entire industry builds software.
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
Embed with the Codex product team to discover opportunities that improve developer outcomes and growth
Design and interpret A/B tests and staged rollouts of new coding models and product features
Define and operationalize metrics such as suggestion acceptance, edit distance, compile/test pass rates, task completion, latency, and session productivity
Build dashboards and analyses that help the team self-serve answers to product questions (by language, framework, repo size, task type)
Diagnose failure modes and partner with Research on targeted improvements (model quality signals, user feedback, evals)
You might thrive in this role if you have
5+ years in a quantitative role at a developer-facing or high-growth product
Fluency in SQL and Python; comfort with experiment design and causal inference
Experience defining product metrics tied to user value
Ability to communicate clearly with PM, Eng, and Design—and to influence product direction
You could be an especially great fit if you have
Strong programming background; ability to prototype, run simulations, and reason about code quality
Familiarity with IDE/extension telemetry or developer tooling analytics
Prior experience with NLP/LLMs, code models, or evaluations for generative coding
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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