Agent Standards Architect, Global Affairs

The role

The Agent Standards Architect will lead the execution of external technical standards strategy for agent workstreams. This role involves authoring and negotiating protocols, building coalitions, and representing OpenAI in technical forums to turn technical architecture into credible specifications.

What you will do

• Own a focused workstream plan for core agent identity, discovery, and delegated-authorization standards.
• Recommend where OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or decline to participate in workstreams.
• Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions.
• Shape requirements for scoped delegation, attenuation, step-up approval, revocation, and other agentic needs.
• Translate internal architecture and controls into technical specifications, profiles, and white papers.
• Lead review and approval paths across Product, Security, Engineering, Legal, GRC, Global Affairs, and GTM.
• Represent OpenAI in priority venues and coalitions like IETF, OAuth, FIDO, OIDF, W3C, AAIF, NIST, or ISO.
• Bring external standards intelligence back into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.
• Contribute reusable playbooks, decision records, and contribution patterns.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or closely related product or infrastructure work.
• Authored, edited, or materially shaped normative specifications, profiles, drafts, or conformance requirements in technical 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.
• Ability to distinguish adopted standards, stable extensions, active drafts, working-group proposals, and exploratory ideas.
• Ability to earn trust with engineers and security leaders while communicating with lawyers, product leaders, executives, and policymakers.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
• Ability to write clearly and negotiate constructively.
• Ability to represent OpenAI externally with discretion.

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Global Affairs team builds relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community.