OpenAI
Agent Standards Architect, Global Affairs
$171K–$280K
Washington, DC +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Washington, DC
New York City
About the job
Leads OpenAI’s external technical standards work for agent identity, discovery, delegated authorization, and related agent standards, translating internal architecture into specifications and feeding external requirements into product and security roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Plan and prioritize assigned standards workstreams; determine where OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or abstain.
- Draft and negotiate technical specifications, profiles, assurance criteria, and implementation guidance, coordinating internal reviews and approvals.
- Represent OpenAI in technical standards forums and coalitions, and relay standards developments to internal product, security, compliance, and go-to-market teams.
What they ask for
- Experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or related product or infrastructure work.
- Authorship, editing, or material contribution to normative specifications, profiles, drafts, or conformance requirements in technical standards or open-source governance.
- Ability to reason about OAuth and OIDC, FIDO or WebAuth, workload identity, HTTP signatures, delegated authority, credential lifecycle, revocation, provenance, and auditability.
- Strong communication, negotiation, judgment, and ability to represent the company externally.
Pay
$171K – $280K (base salary)
Tools
OAuth, OIDC, FIDO, WebAuth, HTTP signatures, IETF, W3C, NIST
AI focus
Develops technical standards and safeguards enabling AI agents to act across the internet with identity, delegated authority, interoperability, provenance, and auditability.
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