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About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A JD and a license or qualification to practice law in your jurisdiction
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- The 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
More about this role
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...
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