Subject Matter Expert, Legal

The role

You will shape the next generation of AI by defining legal quality standards and testing model performance. You will work with legal materials, model outputs, and product prototypes to improve AI reasoning and behavior.

What you will do

• Define the quality bar for top-notch legal work.
• Design challenging, realistic AI model evaluations.
• Create and review reference work like research memoranda and contract analyses.
• Develop rubrics to assess legal accuracy and factual grounding.
• Evaluate model outputs and provide actionable feedback to researchers and engineers.
• Partner with Research on datasets and training tasks.
• Work with Product and Engineering to prototype workflows.
• Collaborate with legal professionals to refine standards and test usefulness.

Required qualifications

• Practiced law at a law firm with experience producing and reviewing work for real client matters.
• Deep expertise in one or more practice areas such as commercial transactions, corporate law, litigation, or regulatory work.
• Excellent legal researcher and writer.
• Ability to make expert judgment explicit.
• Ability to work directly with AI tools and collaborate with technical teams.
• Ability to take ownership in ambiguous settings.

Nice to have

• Experience designing evaluations, benchmarks, datasets, or review frameworks for legal work or frontier AI systems.
• A track record of improving legal workflows through technology, knowledge management, or automation.
• Experience training or supervising lawyers, developing practice guidance, or translating complex legal concepts.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks 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.