Hiring: Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform Company: OpenAI Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:41:09 Target Skills & Keywords : AI, IAM About the job Experience: •10+ years building and developing engineering teams that own large scale platforms. Required Skills: •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. •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. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!