Frontend Engineer, Identity
OpenAI•San Francisco, CA
fulltime
Engineering and Information Technology
5+ years
About The Team The Applied team at OpenAI brings cutting-edge AI technology into the hands of millions of people and businesses worldwide. We build and operate products such as ChatGPT, Sora, and the OpenAI API, delivering state-of-the-art multimodal capabilities across text, image, audio, and video. Our work spans product engineering, large-scale inference, and platform infrastructure — all designed to safely and reliably support global usage.
Identity is the essential foundation of trust across all OpenAI user experiences, protecting, remembering, and securely sharing personal and professional context across apps, agents, and workflows. A robust identity system is critical for safe, personal, and scalable AI. The Identity team builds this trusted account and access layer connecting people, enterprises, developers, and agents to the OpenAI ecosystem, designing experiences that balance security, control, and usability for confidently managing identity, permissions, and trust.
About The Role As a Frontend Engineer on OpenAI’s Identity team, you’ll build the user-facing experiences that make secure access to OpenAI simple, clear, and trustworthy for organizations. You’ll design and implement core identity flows — such as sign-in, account management, permissions, and admin experiences — that enable enterprises to adopt OpenAI’s products with confidence.
You’ll work closely with design, product, security, and backend teams to translate complex identity systems like SSO, RBAC, and identity federation into intuitive, reliable interfaces. Your work will directly shape how users and administrators understand and manage access across OpenAI’s products, helping unlock secure, large-scale enterprise adoption of AI.
This role is based in San Francisco, California. There may be relocation options available.
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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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Compensation Range: $230K - $325K