OpenAI · 1 day ago
Frontend Engineer, Identity
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$230K/yr - $325K/yr
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Frontend Engineer on OpenAI’s Identity team, you will build user-facing experiences for secure access to OpenAI's products, focusing on core identity flows and collaborating with various teams to translate complex systems into intuitive interfaces.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SaaSAgentic AIFoundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Deep frontend expertise and genuine enthusiasm for frontend frameworks, performance optimization, latency, and building reusable, composable UI systems
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
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
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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