About the Team

The Infrastructure Engineering function sits within IT and is responsible for reliably building, deploying, and operating critical on prem and hybrid environments that power internal services and critical R&D environments.

This is an early, high-leverage technical role focused on applying strong Site Reliability Engineering discipline to environments where uptime, safety, recoverability, and security are non-negotiable. This person helps replace bespoke, one-off infrastructure with standardized infrastructure-as-code building blocks that compound reliability and operational leverage as OpenAI scales.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer working on security infrastructure to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure that underpins identity, access, endpoint, and shared platform services across the company.

In this role, you will be a senior technical owner for infrastructure and identity systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through policy enforcement, upgrades, recovery, and day-two operations. You will build durable, production-grade platforms that remove operational friction, enforce security by default, and enable teams to move faster with confidence.

This role is well suited for a hands-on senior engineer who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys owning complex systems end to end, and raises the reliability and security bar by replacing fragile implementations with standardized, repeatable infrastructure.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ and requires in-office presence.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and operate reliable infrastructure across on-prem, hybrid, shared, and product adjacent environments.

• Establish standardized infrastructure patterns that replace bespoke implementations with repeatable, auditable, secure-by-default systems.

• Own the lifecycle of critical infrastructure platforms, including provisioning, deployment, upgrades, patching, recovery, and long-term reliability.

• Build infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.

• Mature identity adjacent and policy enforced infrastructure, including Microsoft Entra and Azure management patterns.

• Build observability, alerting, and incident response mechanisms that improve availability, recoverability, and operational confidence.

• Automate high-toil and high-risk workflows with guardrails, progressive rollout patterns, and safe rollback paths.

• Translate incidents, design reviews, and operational learnings into durable fixes, reusable patterns, and stronger technical standards.

• Influence cross-functional partners across security, identity, network, and platform teams through architecture, implementation, operational data, and clear technical writing

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and architecting mission-critical infrastructure in high-reliability environments

• Have experience running Security Infrastructure

• Have been the senior technical owner for the design and maturation of complex on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-integrated systems, setting durable architectural patterns used by multiple teams

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles at scale, using observability, automation, and incident learnings to materially reduce risk and operational toil

• Operate comfortably in ambiguity, making sound architectural decisions under pressure while staying close to technical detail

• Have experience operating infrastructure for R&D or specialized labs, manufacturing, or other safety critical environments where uptime and recoverability are essential

• Have experience with fleet, endpoint, or virtual desktop platforms such as FleetDM, Chef, or Azure Virtual Desktop

• Have experience partnering closely with identity or security engineering teams on hardened, policy enforced infrastructure at scale

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our Communications team’s ethos is to support OpenAI’s mission and goals by clearly and authentically explaining our technology, values, and approach to safely building powerful AI.

About the Role

OpenAI is seeking an experienced communications professional to join our Platform & Research Communications team. This role will work closely with the Research Communications Lead and partner deeply with safety researchers, alignment researchers, and cross-functional teams to shape how OpenAI’s safety research is understood by researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the broader public.

This position is responsible for developing and executing external communications strategies around OpenAI’s safety research—from alignment and evaluations to broader work that helps advance the safe development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems. The ideal candidate brings strong science or technical fluency, excellent storytelling instincts, and experience helping researchers communicate complex work with clarity, accuracy, and nuance.

You will partner closely with research leadership, individual researchers, policy, product, safety, legal, and cross-functional communications teams. This role requires both strategic judgment and hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment where research, public understanding, and high-stakes safety narratives intersect.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA and follows a hybrid schedule (three days per week in office). Relocation assistance is available.

In this role, you will:

Shape Safety Research Narratives

Develop clear, credible external narratives around OpenAI’s safety research, including alignment, evaluations, preparedness, interpretability, and other areas connected to the safe development of frontier AI.

Translate complex technical work into accessible stories without oversimplifying, overstating impact, or creating unnecessary alarm.

Help define and reinforce OpenAI’s POV on key safety research topics and how they connect to OpenAI’s broader research roadmap and mission.

Partner Deeply with Researchers

Work directly with safety and alignment researchers to understand their work, identify the most important ideas, and help position those ideas publicly.

Serve as a communications thought partner to researchers—helping them anticipate questions, clarify implications, and communicate with precision.

Build communications plans that help researchers share their work through the right channels, at the right level of depth, and with the right context.

Lead Proactive Storytelling & Content Strategy

Develop proactive storytelling opportunities across blogs, explainers, video, podcasts, events, and other channels beyond traditional media.

Help identify creative ways to elevate safety research and make the work more legible to expert and non-expert audiences.

Look across the safety research portfolio to identify broader themes, narrative opportunities, and moments where OpenAI can contribute meaningfully to public understanding.

Support Research Launches & Publications

Partner with research teams to plan communications for major papers, evaluations, model-related research, safety initiatives, and other technical publications.

Collaborate with editorial, design, social, policy, and research teams on blogs, explainers, visuals, briefing materials, and supporting content.

Ensure launches are grounded in evidence, appropriately scoped, and aligned with OpenAI’s safety, policy, and communications priorities.

Lead Research-Focused Media Engagement.

Build and maintain trusted relationships with science, technology, AI, and business journalists who cover frontier AI and safety research.

Manage proactive and reactive media engagement related to safety research announcements, papers, collaborations, and emerging narratives.

Prepare researchers and executives for interviews, briefings, events, and public appearances.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Work closely with Product, Policy, Safety, Legal, Marketing, and other Communications teams to align safety research communications with broader company goals.

Partner with teams managing crisis and reactive safety communications to ensure clear coordination, while maintaining focus on proactive research storytelling.

Help build a stronger communications muscle around safety research across the organization.

Risk Anticipation & Mitigation

Identify potential reputational, scientific, policy, or misinterpretation risks early.

Develop mitigation strategies, Q&A, messaging guidance, and briefing materials for sensitive or high-profile safety research topics.

Help ensure OpenAI communicates responsibly about frontier capabilities, limitations, uncertainty, and the role of ongoing safety research.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

7+ years of experience in research, science, technology, or safety-related communications.

Demonstrated experience working directly with scientists, engineers, researchers, or technical leaders.

Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, safety research, alignment, or adjacent technical domains.

Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone for expert and general audiences.

Strong judgment handling complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes narratives.

Experience developing proactive storytelling strategies across multiple channels, including blogs, media, video, podcasts, events, or long-form content.

Experience managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see .

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this .

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About the Team

Security is at the foundation of OpenAI's mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Identity Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of this effort, designing and building the identity and access management solutions that protect model weights, customer data, and critical systems across multiple cloud environments.

The team partners across OpenAI, including Applied Engineering, Research, IT, Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering, to provide secure and scalable platforms for identity, access management, permissioning, orchestration, and safe AI research.

About the Role

We’re looking for an engineering leader to lead Identity Infrastructure Engineering, the team building the systems that govern and scale access across OpenAI’s research, engineering, and internal platforms.

This role sits at the center of cloud infrastructure, identity, software engineering, and security-critical operations. You’ll lead engineers building control planes, policy systems, workload and agent authorization patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and operational foundations that help OpenAI move quickly while keeping access reliable, auditable, least-privileged, and safe under failure.

The ideal candidate has led teams responsible for large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure. They can go deep into code and architecture when needed, while giving engineers and technical leads the clarity and ownership to do their best work. They set technical direction, grow strong teams, make durable architecture decisions, and turn ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into platforms OpenAI can trust and build on for years.

In this role, you will:

• Build and lead a high-performing Identity Infrastructure team, going deep enough technically to set direction while empowering the team to own delivery.

• Define the strategy for identity platform as the policy plane for access across people, agents, workloads, services, clouds, and internal systems.

• Scale Access Manager for evolving human and agent lifecycles, making routine access automatic and sensitive access contextual, time-bound, and accountable.

• Build the access graph and resource catalog that make access decisions explainable, risk-aware, and grounded in ownership, sensitivity, environment, and usage.

• Replace broad standing privilege with risk-tiered access, so routine work stays fast, privileged access is narrow and observable, and break-glass is exceptional.

• Establish first-class authorization for agents and workloads, with delegated, action-scoped permissions, time-bound access, full attribution, and no credential sharing.

• Partner across Security, Infrastructure, Applied, Research, IT, and product to turn identity standards into systems teams trust and adopt.

• Operate identity infrastructure as a mission-critical platform, with clear reliability goals, safe rollouts, strong observability, healthy on-call, and rigorous incident learning.

• Measure success by safer, faster, and more accountable access: reduced unnecessary privilege, stronger governance, broader coverage, clearer auditability, and less friction for legitimate work.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years building and developing engineering teams that own large scale platforms.

• Experience owning security critical production systems where reliability, least privilege, auditability, and operational rigor are essential.

• Deep judgment across cloud infrastructure, IAM, authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.

• Hands-on technical depth to go into code and architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across correctness, performance, scale, and operability.

• Track record turning complex infrastructure problems into adopted platforms across Engineering, Security, Research, and internal teams.

• High bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and long-term ownership.

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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see .

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this .

OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.