OpenAI
Manager
Lead the team building the identity and access control plane that protects OpenAI's model weights and infrastructure
OpenAI is hiring an engineering leader for Identity Infrastructure Engineering — the team designing identity, access management, and authorization systems (including for AI agents and workloads) that protect model weights, customer data, and critical systems. This is a hands-on engineering management role requiring deep IAM judgment plus 10+ years leading teams that own large-scale, mission-critical platforms.
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What this interview tests
- Engineering team leadership at scale (10+ years)
- IAM: authentication, authorization, workload/agent identity
- Risk-tiered and time-bound privileged access design
- Security-critical production system ownership
- Durable architecture decision-making
- Cross-org platform adoption (Security, Infra, Research, IT)
Common question themes
Describing a team you built or scaled that owned a large-scale mission-critical platform
Designing a control plane or policy system for access governance from 0 to 1
Moving an organization from standing privilege to risk-tiered, contextual access
Designing authorization for AI agents/workloads — scoped, time-bound, attributable, no shared credentials
Handling a security incident on identity infrastructure: detection, containment, postmortem
Balancing hands-on technical depth against empowering senior ICs to own delivery
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