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About the Role
We are seeking a counsel to lead legal responses to cybersecurity and AI safety incidents, advising on complex incidents from discovery through resolution and developing responses to incidents involving model and tool safety. This role will help define how frontier AI companies investigate and respond to safety events where established legal standards may not yet exist.
Responsibilities
- Serve as legal lead on assigned cybersecurity and AI safety incidents, coordinating fact development, legal analysis, advising, cross-functional escalation, and follow-through.
- Work with investigators to understand incident scope, attack paths, root cause, and affected systems and data, and potential third-party impacts.
- Manage outside counsel and third-party service provider engagements for incident response.
- Serve as key Legal point of contact for cross-functional teams.
- Partner with Privacy, Product, Regulatory, and other counsel to assess notification and reporting obligations, advise on customer communications, and coordinate third-party outreach and information sharing.
- Prepare concise incident updates and decision materials.
- Develop severity-based escalation criteria, response playbooks, exercises, and clear decision and handoff processes for incidents.
- Support post-incident reviews, track corrective actions, and translate lessons into practical improvements.
Requirements
- A JD and a license or qualification to practice law in your jurisdiction.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Relevant legal experience managing cybersecurity or privacy incident responses or comparable complex technology investigations at a technology company, law firm, or government agency.
- Experience working with technical teams, other counsel, and communications partners.
- Ability to translate technical findings into practical legal advice, with a working understanding of technical information.
- Sound judgment under time pressure, clear communication of uncertainty, and an understanding of when to act, seek specialist advice, or escalate.
- Clear, concise writing and the ability to keep cross-functional teams aligned through changing facts and competing priorities.
- Ownership of details and follow-through, paired with collaborative work with colleagues who bring different expertise.
- A strong interest in the novel challenges of AI safety and a willingness to help develop new approaches.
- Direct AI incident experience is helpful; strong transferable incident response skills are welcome.
- Availability to participate in time-sensitive incident response, including occasional work outside normal business hours.
Skills
- Incident response
- Cybersecurity
- AI safety
- Legal analysis
- Risk assessment
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
Location
- Washington, D.C.
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days in office per week)
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD)
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.
- AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
- Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.