Agent Standards Architect Global Affairs
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will plan and execute standards workstreams for agent identity, discovery, and delegated authorization. You will develop technical specifications and assurance guidance, coordinate internal reviews and commitments, represent approved positions in technical forums, and translate external standards developments into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.
Requirements
- Experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or related product or infrastructure work
- Experience authoring, editing, or materially shaping normative specifications, profiles, drafts, or conformance requirements
- Knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, FIDO or WebAuth, workload identity, HTTP signatures, delegated authority, credential lifecycle, revocation, provenance, and auditability
- Ability to distinguish technical-standard maturity levels and adapt engagement posture
- Ability to communicate with engineers, security leaders, lawyers, product leaders, executives, policymakers, and standards participants
- Strong judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
- Technical writing and negotiation skills
Responsibilities
- Own workstream plans for agent identity, discovery, and delegated-authorization standards
- Recommend standards participation and engagement posture
- Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions
- Shape requirements for delegation, authorization, revocation, provenance, and auditability
- Translate internal architecture and controls into specifications, profiles, white papers, and assurance evidence
- Lead internal review and approval paths and maintain commitment traceability
- Represent approved positions in technical standards venues and coalitions
- Bring external standards intelligence into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions
- Create reusable playbooks, decision records, contribution patterns, and handoffs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees or up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, paid office closures, and paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends may be provided
