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Agent Standards Specialist, Global Affairs

About the TeamOpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community im

Company

OpenAI

Location

Washington, DC; New York City

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-04T17:49:13.391+00:00

OpenAI's Global Affairs team is hiring an Agent Standards Specialist, called an Agent Standards Manager in the posting, to lead its external technical standards strategy for AI agents. The work covers identity, discovery, delegated authorization, agentic commerce, web access, provenance, and auditability: drafting and negotiating specifications, profiles, and assurance criteria, coordinating approvals across Security, Product, Engineering, Legal, and GTM, and representing OpenAI at IETF, FIDO, OIDF, W3C, and NIST or ISO efforts. Applicants should have protocol, identity, security, or cryptography experience and a record of shaping normative specifications. Hybrid, in Washington, DC or New York City.