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Posted Jun 26Economist
at openai
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research questions into testable frameworks and applicable takeaways across policy, product, and our organization.
- - Produce policy-relevant outputs, including academic papers, technical reports, and briefings.
Requirements
- About the Team Our economics team is continuously working to improve our understanding of an AI-driven economy.
- About the Role We are seeking a highly technical Economist to join the OpenAI Economic Research team studying the real-world economic impacts of AI.
- experience post-Ph.D. who are interested in using novel, large-scale datasets to study how AI is reshaping economic systems.
- We are looking for candidates with deep expertise in at least one core domain relevant to AI’s economic impact, and an interest in contributing to a broader research agenda spanning labor markets, firm behavior, market dynamics, and macroeconomic change.
- Research Areas of Interest We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas: - Economic Measurement of AI Impact (e.g., adoption trajectories, labor market transitions, productivity growth, and forecasting/scenario modeling for AI-driven economic change) - Macroeconomic Implications of AI (e.g., productivity, technology diffusion, economic growth) - AI and the Labor Market (e.g., employment, wages, job search, task-level impacts, skill
- experience across all domains. We aim to build a team with complementary strengths across these areas. In this role,
- - Apply causal inference and/or structural modeling techniques to study AI-driven economic change.
- - Contribute to the development of new measurement approaches for AI’s economic impact.
- - Use AI across your
- responsibilities to scale your research impact. You might thrive in this role if you have: - A PhD in Economics or a related quantitative field. - 3–5 years of relevant work
- experience (industry or policy research). - Strong background in econometrics and applied microeconomics - Demonstrated
- experience working with large or complex datasets, with demonstrated proficiency in SQL. - Proficiency in statistical programming (e.g., Python, R). - Research related to labor economics, industrial organization, macroeconomics, or technological change. -
- Experience working with platform, labor market, or firm-level data. - Familiarity with causal inference, machine learning methods, or structural modeling.
- About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence
Additional details
- This role is designed for economists with up to 5 years of professional
- This is an individual contributor role where the candidate will organize and execute on their own data-oriented projects.
- You will work at the intersection of economic research, data science, and public policy to produce rigorous empirical work that informs decision-makers across the public, industry, and government.
- you will: - Design and execute empirical research using large-scale observational or experimental data.