助理总法律顾问，商业-基础设施
Associate General Counsel, Commercial – Infrastructure
关于团队
OpenAI 的法律团队在解决人工智能领域新颖且具有重大影响的法律问题方面发挥着关键作用。商业基础设施法律团队支持使先进人工智能成为可能的系统和设施，包括计算、自研芯片、数据中心托管以及自研数据中心开发。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一位资深商业基础设施律师，负责领导我们在快速扩展的数据中心开发和托管组合中的法律工作。您将就涉及新数据中心地点、电力、建设、托管及相关基础设施安排的复杂、高价值交易提供建议。
此职位适合了解数据中心开发和运营的律师——而非一般的房地产从业者。您将与基础设施、财务、采购和运营团队密切合作，并在适当的时候协调外部律师，以帮助项目快速而负责任地推进。
优先考虑旧金山地区，可能需要偶尔出差。
在此职位中，您将：
- 领导数据中心开发和托管交易的商业法律策略和风险管理。
- 起草、谈判并就托管协议、建设协议、电力相关安排及其他支持数据中心开发的合同提供建议。
- 支持涉及原始土地、场地和电力权利、设计与建设、EPC 模式、第三方定制建设结构及回租的第一方项目。
- 与基础设施、财务、采购、运营和其他利益相关者跨职能合作，处理快速推进的复杂项目。
- 在大量基础设施事务中有效管理并协作外部律师。
- 为不断增长的数据中心站点组合开发可扩展的法律手册和合同方法。
如果您具备以下条件，可能会在此职位中表现出色：
- 12 年以上法律工作经验，主要集中在商业法律岗位。
- 在起草、谈判和就托管及数据中心协议提供建议方面有深入的实践经验。
- 具备以下任一方面的经验：第一方数据中心建设、建设与 EPC 协议、电力安排、原始土地开发、定制建设项目或回租。
- 有领导复杂、高价值商业基础设施交易的记录。
- 在超大规模公司、云服务或计算提供商、数据中心开发商的工作经验
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ABOUT THE TEAM
OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling novel and consequential legal issues in AI. The commercial infrastructure legal team supports the systems and facilities that make advanced AI possible, including compute, first-party silicon, colocation, and first-party data center development.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re seeking a senior commercial infrastructure lawyer to lead legal work across our rapidly growing data center development and colocation portfolio. You will advise on complex, high-value transactions involving new data center sites, power, construction, colocation, and related infrastructure arrangements.
This role is designed for a lawyer who understands how data centers are developed and operated—not a general real estate practitioner. You will work closely with infrastructure, finance, procurement, and operations teams, while coordinating outside counsel where appropriate, to help projects move quickly and responsibly.
San Francisco is preferred, and occasional travel may be required.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
- Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for data center development and colocation transactions.
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on colocation agreements, construction agreements, power-related arrangements, and other contracts supporting data center development.
- Support first-party projects involving raw land, site and power rights, design and construction, EPC models, third-party build-to-suit structures, and leasebacks.
- Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, finance, procurement, operations, and other stakeholders on fast-moving, complex projects.
- Manage and collaborate effectively with outside counsel across a high volume of infrastructure matters.
- Develop scalable legal playbooks and contracting approaches for a growing portfolio of data center sites.
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE:
- 12+ years of legal experience, primarily in commercial legal roles.
- Deep, hands-on experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on colocation and data center agreements.
- Experience with one or more of the following: first-party data center builds, construction and EPC agreements, power arrangements, raw-land development, build-to-suit projects, or leasebacks.
- A track record leading sophisticated, high-value commercial infrastructure transactions.
- Experience at a hyperscaler, cloud or compute provider, data center developer, major colocation company, or law firm practice focused on comparable commercial infrastructure matters.
- A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
- Excellent judgment and the ability to operate autonomously in a highly technical, fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to translate complex legal issues into practical, business-aligned guidance.
- A JD and license or qualification to practice in California.
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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