# Agent Standards Specialist, Global Affairs

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Washington, DC, New York, NY
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $171k – $280k/yr
**Skills:** Technical Standards, Internet Protocols, Identity And Access, Security Architecture, Applied Cryptography, OAuth, Openid Connect, Fido, Webauth, Workload Identity, Http Signatures, Delegated Authorization, Credential Lifecycle, Provenance, Auditability
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads external technical standards strategy for AI agent identity, authorization, discovery, provenance, and auditability. The role translates internal architecture and security controls into credible specifications, coordinates cross-functional approvals, and represents the company in standards forums and industry coalitions.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own a focused workstream plan for agent identity, discovery, delegated authorization, and related standards.
- Recommend whether OpenAI should lead, shape, monitor, oppose, or decline participation in assigned standards workstreams.
- Develop technical standards positions and normative contributions covering principals, agents, runtimes, tasks, sessions, resources, and policy decisions.
- Shape requirements for scoped delegation, attenuation, approval, revocation, credential custody, runtime binding, discovery, interoperability, provenance, and auditability.
- Translate internal architecture and controls into specifications, profiles, white papers, and assurance evidence.
- Lead cross-functional review and approval across Product, Security, Engineering, Legal, GRC, Global Affairs, and GTM.
- Represent OpenAI in technical standards venues and coalitions, including IETF, OAuth-related work, FIDO, OIDF, W3C, AAIF, NIST, and ISO efforts.
- Build relationships with peer companies, standards operators, and public-sector stakeholders.
- Bring external standards intelligence into product, security, compliance, and go-to-market decisions.
- Create reusable playbooks, decision records, contribution patterns, and implementation handoffs.

## Requirements
- Strong experience in technical standards, internet protocols, identity and access, security architecture, applied cryptography, or related product or infrastructure work.
- Experience authoring, editing, or materially shaping normative specifications, profiles, drafts, or conformance requirements in technical standards or open-source governance settings.
- Working knowledge of OAuth, OpenID Connect, FIDO, 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 build trust with engineers and security leaders and communicate with legal, product, executive, policy, and external standards audiences.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Clear writing, constructive negotiation, and discretion when representing the company externally.

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