About the team

The OpenAI Legal Team plays a critical role in advancing our mission by addressing innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals from diverse legal areas – technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, intellectual property, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation – who collaborate closely with colleagues across the firm.

If you are passionate about being a technical lawyer working on cutting-edge challenges, you will thrive here.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Lawyer to lead commercial legal strategy and implementation across OpenAI’s rapidly growing hardware portfolio. This is a cross-functional role that will collaborate closely with the Procurement, Supply Chain, Partnerships, Finance and Product teams to organize, negotiate and manage transactions that will support OpenAI’s long-term hardware ambitions.

We are looking for an experienced technology transaction lawyer who thrives on ambiguity and wants to help define the rules of the business game for leading hardware systems in the age of AI. This role reports to our Deputy General Counsel.

This role will be based in San Francisco, California.

This role will:

• Proprietary business legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI hardware transactions.

• Draft, negotiate and advise on complex agreements with device suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and technology partners.

• Support strategic partnerships involving AI hardware and hardware supply chains.

• Develop frameworks for procurement, licensing, and collaboration across the hardware ecosystem.

• Partner with Finance and Operations teams to align contract terms with business and compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with policy and regulatory colleagues on issues affecting global supply chains, export controls, and manufacturing.

• Build efficient and scalable contracting processes that support rapid OpenAI hardware development while managing risk.

You may thrive in this role if you:

• Over 10 years of legal experience, with a significant focus on technology transactions and commercial contracts.

• A combination of in-house expertise and the experience of first-class law firms.

• Experience negotiating agreements in the hardware, instrumentation or robotics areas.

• Familiarity with global supply chains, export controls and manufacturing regulations.

• Demonstrated ability to work with independence and sound judgment in high-tech, fast-moving environments.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to transform complexity into actionable, business-aligned guidance.

• Experience advising on cross-border deals and global regulatory frameworks.

• Previous experience with intellectual property licensing, supply agreements, joint ventures, or other complex business deals in hardware industries is a strong plus.

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and publishing company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose AI benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of AI systems’ capabilities and seek to safely deploy them in the world through our products. AI is an incredibly powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must accommodate and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that make up the full spectrum of humanity.

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