About the job
Join Our Innovative Team
At OpenAI, security is the cornerstone of our commitment to ensuring artificial general intelligence serves all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team is pivotal in this mission, crafting robust identity and access management solutions that safeguard our model weights, customer data, and essential systems across diverse cloud environments. Collaborating closely with teams across Applied Engineering, Research, IT, and Security, we deliver a secure and scalable platform that empowers permissioning, orchestration, and groundbreaking AI research.
Your Role
As a Software Engineer on our Identity Infrastructure Engineering team, you will play a crucial role in designing, deploying, and managing foundational security tools and infrastructure. This position involves leveraging a wide array of technologies to support multi-cloud deployments, ensuring our researchers and engineers can securely build, test, and scale transformative AI systems. We seek individuals who are technically adept, collaborative, and passionate about integrating secure-by-default principles throughout our technology stack.
We invite Software Engineers eager to address challenges in:
Identity & Access Management: Develop and sustain systems and interfaces that efficiently manage user and service identities, guaranteeing consistent, fine-grained access controls across various cloud providers and internal services.
Multi-Cloud Security: Architect and implement tools that protect model weights, proprietary data, and sensitive assets, seamlessly operating within AWS, Azure, GCP, and future cloud environments.
Automation & Tooling: Create robust frameworks, APIs, and CLI tools that automate ongoing security tasks (such as credential provisioning and rotation), allowing teams to focus on AI innovation without compromising security.
In this position, you will:
Develop new features for our IAM platform that integrate seamlessly with evolving cloud services, enabling teams to operate efficiently while adhering to security best practices.
Lead security innovations by designing tools, processes, and frameworks that enhance our infrastructure.
This role is primarily based in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, with remote work options considered. We embrace a hybrid work model, requiring three days in the office weekly, and provide relocation assistance for new hires.

