OpenAI
Applied Risk Standards Architect
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco · Washington, DC
- Published
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly, our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and – in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders – seek to shape policy so that it aligns with and supports our mission.
About the role
OpenAI is looking for an Applied Risk Standards Architect to lead standards work for applied risk in applications, including mental health, youth safety, age assurance, functional efficacy, reliability, and privacy-related risks. You will help turn internal research, safety policies, and evaluation methods into technically sound, measurable, and adaptable standards that build public trust and support responsible deployment.
This role sits within our AI standards and global assurance function in Global Affairs. Working closely with Safety Systems, Research, Product, Model Policy, Legal, and third-party evaluators, you will author proposals, negotiate requirements, and represent OpenAI in priority standards bodies. You will take on the drafting and external engagement needed to advance this work, enabling technical experts to focus on the underlying methods and evidence. You will also bring emerging requirements back into internal planning before they become established expectations.
Alongside this primary portfolio, you will support the AI Standards and Global Assurance Lead on frontier AI assurance, contributing to risk-management standards, evaluation and benchmarking requirements, and approaches to independent assessment.
The role connects technical practice with external standards. It does not replace the teams responsible for evaluation methods, safety decisions, controls, internal compliance, or implementation. You will own standards drafting, review coordination, negotiation, and assessment-design contributions within an agreed mandate.