OpenAI Counsel, AI Safety & Cyber Incident Response at OpenAI leads legal responses to cybersecurity and AI safety incidents. Advises on complex cybersecurity incidents and helps develop legal frameworks for AI safety incident response.
Responsibilities
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.
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.
This role is based in Washington, D.C. or San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
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.
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.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
Qualification
Ability to establish facts
Required
Experience in legal responses to cybersecurity incidents
Experience with AI safety incident response
Ability to exercise sound judgment on novel questions
Ability to follow matters through to resolution
Ability to establish facts, assess risks, and guide investigations, communications, remediation, and reporting
