Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $293K – $405K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

Identity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays locked away or exposed. With it, AI becomes safe, personal, and truly useful, empowering users while keeping control firmly in their hands. Our team builds the trusted OpenAI account layer that connects people, enterprises, developers, and agents to OpenAI apps and the broader AI ecosystem.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity team, you will build and evolve the foundational identity platform that serves all OpenAI users across our products. You’ll lead the design and implementation of core identity systems — including authentication, authorization, access control, and account management — enabling individuals, teams, and businesses to securely manage accounts at scale while keeping the user experience seamless. This role spans our entire product fleet, including ChatGPT, the API, Sora, Codex, and Atlas, and involves close collaboration with product and platform engineers who rely on identity as critical infrastructure. You’ll drive major architectural initiatives, mentor other engineers, and make platform-level decisions where security, correctness, and reliability are paramount.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and build the next generation of Identity at OpenAI – including new use cases such as Agent identity and Sign In With ChatGPT

• Design and build our identity infrastructure for consumer internet scale, while also solving scalability bottlenecks as they arise.

• Build powerful identity primitives, APIs, and internal tooling that enable product teams across OpenAI to integrate seamlessly with the account and access-control layer.

• Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineers.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 7+ years of experience building and shipping production systems at product-driven technology companies, with a track record of owning meaningful technical scope.

• Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments.

• Have experience or interest in Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Identity Management.

• Naturally take ownership end-to-end, are comfortable navigating unfamiliar systems, and are eager to learn whatever’s needed to solve hard problems well.

• Thrive in fast-moving environments, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, balancing competing priorities, and making sound tradeoffs as the company and platform evolve.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve their mission, they must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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Location

New York City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $293K – $385K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to make AGI beneficial for all of humanity and our mission is successful only if AGI drives _real_ _benefits_ across all industries in the world. Our goal in B2B applications is to enable this mission by helping businesses, enterprises & governments redefine how they operate to empower people and accelerate economic growth.

We build and operate the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of companies and developers worldwide. We power the OpenAI API and the Enterprise products that empower people around the world to do their jobs better and more efficiently. Our teams span product engineering, backend infrastructure, and safety, working together to ensure that OpenAI’s technology is delivered with reliability, security, and a world-class user experience.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our API Experience team. This team is responsible for building out and crafting an exceptional development experience for our API developers. You will be owning the API documentation, SDKs, account experience, and overall development experience that millions of developers use to build on top of OpenAI models – everyone from hobbyist developers to Fortune 500 companies. You will also collaborate closely with research teams to bring the latest cutting-edge models to our API.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and build out a diverse team of high performing full-stack engineers.

• Build an API product that developers love to use.

• Set technical direction for building robust and scalable API products for end developers.

• Collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders, including product, design, go-to-market, and other engineering teams.

• Coach and nurture engineers to accelerate their growth and learning.

Requirements

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years of experience in engineering management

• Have prior experience building out external facing API products at consumer internet scale

• Take pride in building and operating scalable, reliable products and systems

• Care deeply about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and have a track record of building inclusive teams

• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done

• Have the ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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