Frontend Engineer, Identity

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.

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.

• Build scalable, reusable frontend components and patterns for core identity experiences, including sign-in flows, account management, permissions, and admin surfaces.

• Partner closely with backend and security engineers to deliver end-to-end identity capabilities such as SSO, RBAC, SCIM provisioning, and delegated access through clear, intuitive interfaces.

• Translate complex authentication and authorization systems (e.g., SAML, OIDC, OAuth) into user experiences that are understandable, reliable, and trustworthy for both admins and end users.

• Help define frontend architecture, standards, and patterns for a shared identity platform used across OpenAI’s products.

• Build internal tools and surfaces that enable teams across OpenAI to integrate, manage, and reason about identity and access control effectively.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Go-To-Market partners to turn ambiguous enterprise requirements into high-quality, user-centered interfaces.

• Have at least 5+ years of frontend engineering experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications, with a focus on usability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

• Bring deep frontend expertise and genuine enthusiasm for frontend frameworks, performance optimization, latency, and building reusable, composable UI systems.

• Are excited to take ownership of critical access flows, helping scale and improve sign-in, permissions, and account experiences across OpenAI’s products.

• Enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners — including product, design, security, and go-to-market teams — to shape thoughtful, user-centered solutions.

• Have experience evolving or re-architecting production systems to support new capabilities and increased scale.

• Care deeply about user experience and take pride in crafting interfaces that make complex identity and access systems feel simple and trustworthy.

• Thrive in fast-moving environments where requirements may be ambiguous and priorities evolve, and can still execute quickly without sacrificing quality.

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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