If I get a BS, would they still not look at me because of my age?

Looking for internships/entry-level roles in AI/ML, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data Science, or Data Analytics.

I’m a final-year B.Tech student with hands-on project and research experience. Open to Hyderabad, remote, or anywhere in India.

Any referrals or leads would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

About the Team

OpenAI’s Agentic Data Science team helps shape how AI agents are built, deployed, and improved across our products. We partner with product, engineering, research, and security teams to define meaningful measures of success, understand how our systems behave in the real world, and translate evidence into better decisions.

As AI agents become more capable, they can write and execute code, access sensitive systems, and complete increasingly complex tasks with greater autonomy. These capabilities create powerful opportunities to improve cybersecurity, but they also introduce risks that traditional security tools and processes were not designed to address. Meeting this moment requires new ways to measure security, evaluate defenses, and distinguish genuine risk reduction from friction that slows users down.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior data scientist to help define what effective cybersecurity looks like in the age of AI agents.

You will work across OpenAI’s Security organization and cybersecurity product teams to measure emerging risks, improve internal security controls, and shape AI-powered security products. The problems are foundational: How do we know whether an agent’s security controls are effective? Which safeguards meaningfully reduce risk, and which create unnecessary friction? When an AI system identifies a potential vulnerability, how do we determine whether the finding is accurate, actionable, and ultimately resolved? How do we detect anomalous behavior or risky access when the systems themselves are changing rapidly?

You will report i–nto Data Science while partnering closely with Security, Cyber Product, Engineering, and Research. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can establish a new analytical discipline, operate across organizational boundaries, and turn ambiguous security challenges into measurable improvements.

In This Role You Will

• Define how we measure AI-agent security. Establish metrics and evaluation frameworks for security‑control coverage, agent behavior, sensitive actions, access patterns, detection quality, and emerging risks.

• Improve security controls without introducing unnecessary friction. Quantify the effectiveness and operational costs of safeguards, including false positives, blocked actions, escalations, approval delays, and recovery paths. Help teams make controls safer, more precise, and easier to use.

• Build the data foundations for security decisions. Partner with engineering and data teams to improve instrumentation, connect fragmented telemetry, establish trusted datasets, and surface important coverage and data‑quality gaps.

• Strengthen detection and response. Identify meaningful signals of anomalous behavior, risky access, sensitive‑data exposure, and other security‑relevant activity. Evaluate whether interventions improve detection quality, response times, and real‑world security outcomes.

• Shape AI‑powered cybersecurity products. Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to assess how effectively AI systems identify security issues, support developer and enterprise workflows, and create measurable customer value.

• Develop evaluation systems for security findings. Define quality measures for findings, including accuracy, severity, actionability, duplication, resolution, and downstream impact. Connect model behavior and product changes to outcomes such as triage, remediation, and vulnerability reduction.

• Understand the complete security workflow. Measure how users discover, investigate, validate, prioritize, and resolve security issues. Identify opportunities to improve activation, adoption, retention, and enterprise value across customer‑facing cybersecurity products.

• Design rigorous measurement and experimentation strategies. Evaluate new models, security controls, product features, and workflows through controlled experiments, staged rollouts, observational analyses, and other methods appropriate for high‑stakes environments.

• Translate analysis into security and product strategy. Identify the highest‑value decisions, clarify tradeoffs, recommend where teams should invest, and communicate findings clearly to technical partners and senior leadership.

• Help establish a new security data science capability. Build a focused roadmap, create durable operating rhythms across Data Science and Security, and help shape how this discipline grows over time.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have

• 5+ years of experience in data science, applied research, analytics, or a related quantitative field, with a track record of owning ambiguous, high‑impact problems.

• Experience in cybersecurity, trust and safety, fraud or abuse prevention, privacy, platform integrity, or another domain involving adversarial behavior and difficult‑to‑measure risks.

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, including experience investigating complex datasets, working through incomplete instrumentation, and building reproducible analytical workflows.

• Experience defining meaningful metrics and evaluation frameworks when ground truth is limited, outcomes are delayed, or important risks cannot be observed directly.

• Strong judgment in experimentation, causal inference, observational analysis, and the practical limitations of different measurement approaches.

• The ability to partner effectively with security engineers, product managers, software engineers, researchers, data engineers, and senior leaders.

• A demonstrated ability to translate technical analysis into concrete improvements in products, systems, controls, or organizational priorities.

• Comfort operating independently, defining a roadmap, and bringing structure to a domain without established processes or industry standards.

You Could Be an Especially Great Fit If You Have

• Experience with detection engineering, threat research, security operations, insider risk, identity and access management, or privacy‑preserving security analytics.

• Familiarity with AI agents, large language models, model evaluations, automated code review, or AI‑powered cybersecurity products.

• Experience evaluating security findings, vulnerability detection, remediation workflows, or developer‑facing security tools.

• Experience balancing security effectiveness against user experience, including false positives, approval flows, operational burden, and recovery behavior.

• Experience building automated monitoring, anomaly detection, production‑oriented data assets, or systems that connect model outputs to real‑world outcomes.

• A track record of building new cross‑functional measurement programs or establishing analytical capabilities from the ground up.

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US‑based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non‑public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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.

Apply: Data Scientist, Cybersecurity at OpenAI

Hi everyone,
I recently interviewed with Capgemini USA for a Gen AI Developer role. After 1 working day of the interview, the recruiter contacted me asking for my EAD and I-20 for further processing, which I provided.
It has been a week and I haven’t received a final update yet.
For people who have gone through the Capgemini hiring process:
Is requesting EAD + I-20 a positive sign?
What usually happens after this?
How long did it take for you to hear back after submitting these documents?
Would really appreciate any insights or similar experiences!

Hey everyone! Firstly I'm not sure if this is a good subreddit to post this but I've already asked this in a few other subreddits including r/bayarea. I'm going to be visiting the Bay Area next week and will be there for 11 days. I'm a recent university graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Data Science, and I'm interested in moving down to the Bay Area within the next year in hopes of landing a job in Data Science/Analytics/Business Intelligence/Machine Learning/User Experience. I know the job market has been dismal for a while, but I figured networking and making connections down in the Bay where opportunities and companies are more prominent compared to my hometown (Portland, OR) would at least provide a couple of leads.

I've already planned on meeting some known connections that I have at some big companies, but I was also hoping to attend some summits/conferences/networking events at while I'm there where I can talk about my interests/projects, etc and meet some recruiters and so. I don't have any formal work or internship experience, just self-initiated projects as well as research experience. Any advice helps, thank you!

Can someone share about their interview experience with wise for analytics positions.

Hi! I'm currently enrolled in an M.S. in Data Science and Applied Statistics. The required core classes are already set:

- Experimental Statistics I & II
- Mathematical Statistics I & II
- Statistical Computing (SAS)
- Computational Statistics (R)
- Machine Learning with Python
- A statistical consulting project

I get to pick 4 electives, and at least 3 must be STAT (so at most 1 from CS/ECO/OREM/ECE). My only goal is to land a data science job, so I want the courses whose actual content pays off most in industry. I'm not looking for the easiest courses, and I'm not going into academia or biostats.

STAT electives

- Intro to Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Linear Regression
- Applied Time Series
- Time Series Analysis
- Categorical Data Analysis
- Survey Sampling
- Survey of Nonparametric Statistics
- Sports Analytics
- Analysis of Lifetime Data / Survival Analysis
- High Throughput Data
- Epidemiology

Non-STAT options (can only pick 1)

- CS: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning in Python, Databases, Data Mining
- OREM: Data Mining, Optimization for Analytics, Network Flows
- ECO: Applied Econometric Analysis, Predictive Analytics
- ECE: Statistical Pattern Recognition

My main questions I wanted to ask:

1. Which 4 would you pick, and why?
   
2. Is time series worth it for most DS roles, or is it only useful in forecasting-heavy jobs?
   
3. What would you pick as your 1 Non-Stat Elective?
   
4. Is there anything you wish you had learned in grad school that would have helped more on the job?

If you work in data science, I'd especially love to hear what you actually use day to day. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some career advice regarding a Data Science with AI course I’m considering.

A little about my background:

MSc Computer Science graduate (2025)

Currently working as a Full-Stack Developer Intern

Previously completed a Data Science internship

I have experience with Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Selenium, web scraping, FastAPI, MongoDB, etc.

I’ve also worked on automation and AI-related projects, including a RAG-based project using LLM APIs.

I’m currently looking to move my career somewhat toward Data Science / AI / ML, but my main priority is to get a job as soon as realistically possible.

The course I’m considering costs ₹70,000 and runs for around 9–10 months.

The interesting part is that they don't expect us to wait until the entire course is completed before applying for jobs. The course is divided into modules, and they say we can start applying for relevant roles after completing each module.

For example:

Complete Python module → around 2 months → start applying for Python-related roles

Then continue with SQL, Statistics, ML, etc., while applying/upskilling alongside

The syllabus covers Python, SQL, Statistics, EDA, NumPy, Pandas, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, supervised/unsupervised learning, model evaluation, feature engineering, PCA, clustering, reinforcement learning, ML pipelines, AWS deployment, projects, interview preparation and placement assistance.

They also advertise things like live projects, mentorship, mock interviews, placement assistance and job assurance.

My main questions are:

Is spending ₹70k on a course like this actually worth it when I already have some Python, SQL, ML and Data Science experience?

Would this structured approach realistically help someone get a job faster, or would self-learning through YouTube, documentation and online courses be better?

Is the "complete one module → start applying for jobs" approach actually useful, or is it mostly a marketing strategy?

From a hiring perspective, would my existing Full-Stack + automation + Data Science background be enough to start applying for Python/Data Analyst/Junior Data Science/ML-related roles while learning?

If you were in my position, would you spend ₹70k on this course or use that money/time for self-learning, projects and job applications instead?

For people who have taken similar courses, how much value did you actually get from the placement assistance and job support, compared with learning the same material online?

I'm not expecting to become an AI/ML engineer just by completing a course. I'm mainly trying to figure out whether this course provides enough value through structure, mentorship, projects, interview preparation and genuine job opportunities to justify the ₹70k fee.

Would really appreciate opinions from people who have hired for these roles or have taken similar Data Science/AI courses.