Analytics Engineer, Real Estate and Workplace

About the Team

The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) Data & Technology team builds the data foundation that powers how OpenAI plans, operates, and scales its global real estate and workplace footprint. We integrate data across people, seating, presence, meeting rooms, sensors, leases, and finance systems to create a trusted source of truth that enables efficient, high‑impact decisions about how we design and operate our offices.

Our data platform also serves as the backbone for agent‑based automation and real‑time applications, giving you the opportunity to contribute to cutting‑edge AI innovation that is transforming how workplaces and real‑estate operations run across OpenAI.

As an Analytics Engineer on the REW Data & Technology team, you will build high‑quality data models, pipelines, and Tableau assets that enable OpenAI to make data‑driven decisions about offices, workplace operations, and employee experience. You will work closely with Workplace Operations, Finance, and Technology teams to translate real‑world operational problems into reliable, scalable analytics products.

This role is focused on strong execution and delivery: shipping trusted datasets, building production dashboards, and contributing to a growing analytics platform that supports both human and agent‑driven workflows.

• Build and maintain business‑facing data models in Databricks and SQL that power REW reporting and planning.
• Develop and manage data pipelines for Tableau dashboards used by site leaders, operators, and executives.
• Define and maintain canonical REW metrics and documentation to ensure consistent decision‑making across teams.
• Integrate data from HR systems, Office Space, badge and access systems, meeting‑room bookings, and real‑time presence and occupancy sensors.
• Implement data quality checks, tests, and monitoring to ensure the reliability of REW metrics.
• Build real‑time data pipelines that support agent‑based operational applications.
• Partner with product managers and engineers to evolve and scale the REW data platform.

• 6+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with cloud data platforms.
• Comfort working with messy, operational, and real‑world datasets such as environmental sensor data, IoT data, or other event‑based data sources.
• Experience with tools such as dbt, Airflow, or Spark, and real‑time systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Delta Live Tables, or Spark Structured Streaming.
• The ability to thrive in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift quickly.

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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