Agent Standards Specialist, Global Affairs

OpenAI
Washington, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 171,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Clear communication","Judgment","Collaboration","Technical reasoning","Negotiation"]

Lead execution of OpenAI’s external technical standards strategy for agent identity, delegated authorization, discovery, communications, provenance, and auditability. Translate internal architecture and controls into credible specifications, protocol profiles, assurance criteria, and implementation guidance. Plan and negotiate standards workstreams, build coalitions, represent OpenAI in venues like IETF and OAuth-related efforts, and drive repeatable processes that reduce key-person risk while coordinating across Security, Product, Engineering, Legal, GRC, and Global Affairs.

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Job Summary

Lead execution of OpenAI’s external technical standards strategy for agent identity, delegated authorization, discovery, communications, provenance, and auditability. Translate internal architecture and controls into credible specifications, protocol profiles, assurance criteria, and implementation guidance. Plan and negotiate standards workstreams, build coalitions, represent OpenAI in venues like IETF and OAuth-related efforts, and drive repeatable processes that reduce key-person risk while coordinating across Security, Product, Engineering, Legal, GRC, and Global Affairs.
Location: Washington, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own a focused workstream plan for core agent identity, discovery, and delegated-authorization standards, with adjacent work prioritized by the portfolio.
  • •Recommend whether OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or decline to participate based on technical maturity, governance quality, strategic leverage, readiness, and priorities.
  • •Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions covering distinctions among human/service principals, agents, workloads/runtime, tasks, sessions, resources, and policy decisions.
  • •Embed with Agent Security and Applied/Platform teams to translate internal architecture and controls into credible specifications, profiles, white papers, and assurance evidence.
  • •Represent OpenAI in priority venues and approval paths across Product, Security, Engineering, Legal, GRC, Global Affairs, and GTM; bring standards intelligence back into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 171,000 - 280,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or closely related product/infrastructure work.
  • •Authored, edited, or materially shaped normative specifications, profiles, drafts, or conformance requirements in standards or open-source governance settings.
  • •Ability to reason about OAuth and OIDC, FIDO or WebAuth, workload identity, HTTP signatures, delegated authority, credential lifecycle, revocation, provenance, and auditability.
  • •Understand agent trust as a composed stack and can separate principal, agent, runtime, task, session, resource, and policy claims.
  • •Communicate crisply with engineers and security leaders, and also with lawyers, product leaders, executives, policymakers, and external standards participants.
Experience:Open standardsSecurityIdentity and access
Skills:Clear communicationJudgmentCollaborationTechnical reasoningNegotiation
Tech Stack:OAuthOIDCFIDOWebAuthHTTP signaturesCryptography

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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