Description
Job Posting
Frontend Engineer, Identity
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Applied AI
Compensation
- $230K – $325K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
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.
About the Role
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.
In this role, you will:
- 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.
You might thrive here if you:
- 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 re