senior Legal Counsel ic · Posted May 14, 2026
$248,000 – $330,000
USD per year
Skills
OpenAI

About this role

OpenAI is hiring a senior-level Legal Counsel based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with OpenAI. Compensation is listed at $248,000–$330,000 per year.

Role
Legal Counsel
Function
legal
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Department
Legal
Posted
May 14, 2026

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Job description

from OpenAI careers

About the Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

About the Role

As a member of our AI Product Counsel team, you will assist with legal initiatives related to our advanced AI products, models, and technologies. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI with a focus on advising product teams on the cutting edge of AI model and product developments, in areas that may span across ChatGPT and Codex, including agentic work, search, commerce, and multimodal outputs.This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of the legal and AI fields. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

  • Be the go-to counsel and partner for several teams focused on frontier AI models and products.

  • Identify and address product, regulatory, copyright, commerce, privacy, and other legal risks and mitigations, including for agentic, commerce, and multi-modal experiences.

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