高级法律顾问，商业（基础设施）
Senior Counsel, Commercial (Infrastructure)
关于团队
OpenAI 的法律团队在解决人工智能领域的创新和基础性法律问题方面发挥着关键作用，从而推动我们的使命。团队成员来自多个法律领域——技术、人工智能、基础设施、隐私、知识产权、公司法、雇佣法、税务、监管和诉讼——并与公司内部的同事紧密合作。
如果你热衷于作为科技律师处理前沿挑战，你将在这里茁壮成长。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一位资深律师，参与 OpenAI 快速增长的基础设施组合中的商业法律策略和执行。这是一个跨职能职位，将与采购、供应链、合作伙伴关系、财务和产品团队密切合作，以构建、谈判和管理支持 OpenAI 长期基础设施目标的交易。
我们希望找到一位经验丰富的基础设施交易律师，能够在不确定性中茁壮成长，并帮助定义人工智能时代基础设施工作的商业策略。该职位向基础设施副总法律顾问汇报。
该职位位于加利福尼亚州旧金山。我们采用每周三天办公室办公的混合工作模式，并为新员工提供搬迁协助。
在此职位中，你将：
- 负责 OpenAI 基础设施交易的商业法律策略和风险管理。
- 起草、谈判并就与基础设施供应商、制造商、分销商和技术合作伙伴的复杂协议提供建议。
- 支持涉及人工智能基础设施和硬件供应链的战略合作伙伴关系。
- 在基础设施生态系统中建立采购、许可和协作的框架。
- 与财务和运营团队合作，确保合同条款符合业务和合规要求。
- 与政策和监管同事合作，处理影响全球供应链、出口管制和制造的问题。
- 建立可扩展、高效的合同流程，以加快 OpenAI 基础设施的发展，同时管理风险。
如果你具备以下条件，你可能会在这个职位上表现出色：
- 具有 8 年以上法律经验，重点在技术交易和商业合同方面。
- 拥有法学博士学位（JD）并持有加州执业资格或相关资质。
- 具备公司内部和顶级律师事务所的工作经验。
- 在基础设施领域具有谈判协议的专业知识。
- 熟悉全球供应链相关事宜。
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About the Team
OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields—technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation—who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.
If you are passionate about being a technology lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you’ll thrive here.
About the Role
We’re seeking a senior lawyer to participate in commercial legal strategy and execution across OpenAI’s fast-growing infrastructure portfolio. This is a cross-functional role that will partner closely with procurement, supply chain, partnerships, finance, and product teams to structure, negotiate, and manage the transactions that will support OpenAI’s long-term infrastructure ambitions.
We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure transactions lawyer who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help define the commercial playbook for infrastructure efforts in the AI era. This role reports to the Associate General Counsel for infrastructure.
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:
- Own commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI infrastructure transactions.
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on complex agreements with infrastructure suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and technology partners.
- Support strategic partnerships involving AI infrastructure and hardware supply chains.
- Develop frameworks for procurement, licensing, and collaboration across the infrastructure ecosystem.
- Partner with finance and operations teams to align contract terms with business and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with policy and regulatory colleagues on issues impacting global supply chains, export controls, and manufacturing.
- Build scalable, efficient contracting processes that support OpenAI’s infrastructure development at speed while managing risk.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 8+ years of legal experience, with substantial focus on technology transactions and commercial contracting.
- Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA.
- A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
- Expertise negotiating agreements in the infrastructure domain.
- Familiarity with global supply chains, infrastructure projects for both buying and building, and manufacturing transactions.
- Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in highly technical and fast-moving environments.
- Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to distill complexity into actionable, business-aligned guidance.
- Experience advising on cross-border deals and global regulatory frameworks.
- Prior experience with infrastructure, supply agreements, joint ventures, or other complex commercial deals in hardware industries is a strong plus.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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