Global AI Standards Architect — Agent Identity & Security

OpenAI, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 171,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Agent Standards Architect to lead external standards strategy for agent identity, discovery, delegated authorization, and related workstreams. This role collaborates with Security, Product, Legal, and Global Affairs to translate architecture into credible specifications and implementation guidance.

You will shape standards across forums like IETF and OAuth, negotiate with partners, and help integrate external requirements into product roadmaps while mitigating risk and

Qualifications

• Strong experience in technical standards, protocols, identity and access, or security-focused product work.
• Authored or shaped normative specifications or conformance requirements.
• Ability to reason about OAuth, OIDC, FIDO, WebAuth, delegated authority, and auditability.
• Ability to translate internal architecture into credible external specifications.

Responsibilities

• Own a focused workstream plan for core agent identity, discovery, and delegated-authorization standards, with adjacent work assigned through portfolio prioritization.
• Recommend where OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or participate based on maturity and governance quality.
• Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions preserving distinctions among human/service principal, agent, workload/runtime, task, session, resource, and policy.
• Shape requirements for scoped delegation, attenuation, step-up approval, revocation, credential custody, runtime binding, discovery, interoperability, provenance, and auditable action trails.
• Embed with Agent Security and Applied/Platform teams to translate architecture into credible specifications, profiles, white papers, and assurance evidence.
• Lead review and approval paths across Product, Security, Engineering, Legal, GRC, Global Affairs, and GTM; maintain mandates, red lines, owners, dependencies.
• Represent OpenAI in priority venues/coalitions (IETF, OAuth, FIDO, OIDF, W3C, AAIF, NIST/ISO); build trust with peers and public-sector stakeholders.
• Bring external standards intelligence back into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions early to shape roadmaps.
• Contribute reusable playbooks and handoffs to reduce key-person risk across the workstream.

Skills

Technical standards

OAuth/OIDC

Security architecture

Provenance

Auditability

Negotiation & writing

Executive communication

Judgment under ambiguity

Job description

OpenAI is seeking an Agent Standards Architect to lead external standards strategy for agent identity, discovery, delegated authorization, and related workstreams. This role collaborates with Security, Product, Legal, and Global Affairs to translate architecture into credible specifications and implementation guidance.

You will shape standards across forums like IETF and OAuth, negotiate with partners, and help integrate external requirements into product roadmaps while mitigating risk and