Counsel, AI Safety & Cyber Incident Response

OpenAI’s Legal team helps address the cutting-edge legal questions that arise from developing and deploying advanced AI. The Security and Public Sector Legal team helps protect OpenAI’s technology, systems, data, and people and supports the safe and responsible use of our tools. We work closely with technical and operational teams to provide practical advice on novel, consequential, and fast-moving issues.

We are seeking a counsel to help lead legal responses to cybersecurity and AI safety incidents. This is an opportunity to bring deep incident response expertise to some of the hardest questions in AI, and help build the legal frameworks and practices for answering them.

You will advise on complex cybersecurity incidents, from discovery through to resolution, and also help develop our response to incidents involving the safety of our models and tools. AI safety incident response is a new and rapidly evolving legal practice area. Your work will help define how frontier AI companies investigate and respond to safety events such as unexpected model behavior, degradation of safeguards, harmful uses of our services, and potential harm to third parties—often where established legal standards do not yet exist. Working directly with Security, Safety, Product, Engineering, and colleagues across Legal, you will advise on consequential decisions where established approaches may offer little guidance.

We are looking for a practical, dynamic lawyer who can turn incomplete information into clear recommendations, exercise sound judgment on novel questions, and follow matters through to resolution. You will help establish the facts, assess risks, and guide investigations, communications, remediation, and reporting. You will also turn lessons from individual incidents into durable response processes, helping further develop a legal function that evolves alongside the technology.

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