The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Serving as legal lead on assigned cybersecurity and AI safety incidents,: coordinating fact development, legal analysis and advising, cross-functional escalation, and follow-through with the response team.
Working with investigators to understand incident scope, attack paths, root: cause, and affected systems and data, and potential third-party impacts, while helping teams distinguish established facts from gaps in the evidence.
Managing outside counsel and third party service provider engagements necessary to incident response.
Serving as key Legal point of contact for cross-functional teams.
Partnering with Privacy, Product, Regulatory, and other counsel to assess: notification and reporting obligations, advise on timely customer and user communications, and coordinate third-party outreach and incident-related information sharing with industry peers and government partners.
Preparing concise incident updates and decision materials that distinguish: established facts, uncertainties, options, and recommended next steps.
What they're looking for
- Developing severity-based escalation criteria, response playbooks, exercises,: and clear decision and handoff processes for cybersecurity and AI safety incidents, adapting established practices to emerging model risks.
- Supporting post-incident reviews, tracking agreed corrective actions, and: turning lessons into practical improvements to safeguards and response processes.
- A JD and a license or qualification to practice law in your jurisdiction.
- + years of relevant experience.
