Counsel, AI Safety & Cyber Incident Response

The role

This counsel will lead legal responses to cybersecurity and AI safety incidents. You will advise on complex incidents, develop response frameworks, and work with technical and operational teams to manage risks and reporting.

What you will do

• Serve as legal lead on assigned cybersecurity and AI safety incidents.
• Coordinate fact development, legal analysis, and cross-functional escalation.
• Work with investigators to understand incident scope, attack paths, and root causes.
• Manage outside counsel and third party service provider engagements.
• Serve as key Legal point of contact for cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Privacy, Product, and Regulatory counsel to assess notification and reporting obligations.
• Prepare concise incident updates and decision materials.
• Develop severity-based escalation criteria, response playbooks, and decision processes.
• Support post-incident reviews and track corrective actions.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to translate technical findings into practical legal advice.
• Sound judgment under time pressure.
• Clear, concise writing.
• Availability to participate in time-sensitive incident response, including occasional work outside normal business hours.

Nice to have

• Direct AI incident experience

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI through their products.