Agent Standards Architect, Global Affairs
OpenAI · Washington, DC · New York City
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Frontier labremote$171k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead OpenAI's external standards strategy for agent identity and delegation.
- Turn agent architecture into specs for discovery, payments and auditability.
- Represent OpenAI in IETF, W3C, FIDO, OIDF and NIST standards efforts.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A builder-minded standards leader who bridges engineers, lawyers and policymakers to shape trustworthy agent ecosystems. You thrive in ambiguity, negotiate with discretion, and care about safe, interoperable AI agents.
Requirements
- Strong experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access or security architecture
- Authored or shaped normative specs, profiles, drafts or conformance requirements
- Able to reason about OAuth, OIDC, FIDO/WebAuthn, workload identity and credential lifecycle
- Able to separate principal, agent, runtime, task, session and policy claims in agent trust
- Trusted communicator across engineers, security leaders, legal, product and external forums
- Strong judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with clear writing and negotiation
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets