91 legal jobs found in San Francisco, CA

About the Team The Procurement organization enables OpenAI's mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. Within Procurement, the Center of Excellence (COE) team is responsible for designing and scaling the processes, systems, governance, and operating models that enable Procurement to grow effectively alongside the business. This role partners closely with Procurement and cross-functional teams to simplify how work gets requested, routed, approved, and managed across the spend lifecycle. By combining program leadership, process design, and change enablement, we help Procurement scale while maintaining strong controls and delivering an exceptional experience for employees and business partners. About the Role As a Procurement Program Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that span Strategic Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Extended Workforce, Travel & Expense, Corporate Card, Risk, Legal, Finance, and...

About the Team The Procurement organization enables our mission by ensuring every dollar is spent responsibly, compliantly, and efficiently. As a key part of this function, this role reports to the Head of Travel & Expense (T&E) and partners closely with Procurement Operations, Accounting, Finance, and business stakeholders to own and scale the company's global Events strategy, operations, and compliance. About the Role We are looking for a Travel Operations Lead to own and mature the operating model behind OpenAI's executive and employee travel programs. This role will be hands-on in executive travel support while also building the policies, supplier relationships, data, systems, and AI-enabled workflows that allow the program to scale with speed, confidentiality, safety, and control. This person will oversee high-touch executive travel support, including complex commercial travel globally; manage travel agency and supplier performance; own the executive travel...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. About the Role We're seeking a System Software Engineer to join our First-Party Hardware team. In this role, you will design, build, integrate, and validate low-level system software for the manageability and health of OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems. You will work across BMC, Linux, firmware interfaces, automation infra, boot and recovery, hardware diagnostics, telemetry, host and platform drivers,...

About the Team OpenAI's Equity Programs and Compensation teams design and support compensation frameworks that help attract, retain, and motivate exceptional talent as we pursue our mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Together, these teams build thoughtful, scalable programs across cash and equity compensation, grounded in strong governance and disciplined stewardship. Partnering closely with Finance, Legal, and People leaders, the teams develop competitive compensation programs and equity frameworks that align our people with OpenAI's long-term success. About the Role We are hiring a Compensation Analyst, Equity and Executive Compensation to join OpenAI's People team. This individual contributor role sits at the intersection of compensation, analytics, and finance, supporting thoughtful pay decisions through rigorous modeling, benchmarking, reporting, and decision support, with a focus on equity and executive compensation programs....

About the Team The Integrity team builds the systems OpenAI uses to understand, prevent, and respond to misuse across our products. We partner with Product, Policy, Safety Systems, User Operations, Security, Legal, Privacy, OpenAI for Government, and research teams to turn policy and threat models into product controls, review workflows, measurement systems, and enforcement paths. About the Role We are hiring a Product Manager to own Integrity's product strategy for sensitive deployments: contexts where model capability, customer or deployment setting, privacy constraints, and misuse potential make the operating bar unusually high. This includes government and other high stakes deployments, regulated or high-trust enterprise contexts, zero data retention and privacy-constrained environments, and agentic workflows where harm can unfold across many steps rather than a single prompt. The Sensitive Deployments PM will focus on high-consequence use cases relevant to government...

About the Team The Corporate Development team sits at the intersection of OpenAI's strategy and the global AI ecosystem. Partnering closely with research, engineering, product, GTM and business leaders, we analyze markets, technologies, and companies to identify opportunities that accelerate OpenAI's mission and long-term strategy. Bringing together expertise in strategy, M&A, and integration, the team leads the end-to-end process of sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating acquisitions and other strategic transactions. About the Role This is a high-visibility, strategically critical, cross-functional role at the intersection of M&A execution, enterprise go-to-market, and operational excellence. You will lead the critical phase from diligence through integration planning and post-close follow-through, define repeatable integration playbooks, and partner directly with senior stakeholders to ensure each transaction delivers intended value. The ideal candidate...

Research Program Manager, Alignment About the Team OpenAI's Alignment team works to ensure that increasingly capable AI systems reliably follow human intent, avoid catastrophic behavior, and remain controllable, auditable, and safe as capabilities scale. The team is fast-moving: priorities change as evidence, risks, and organizational needs change. We need people who can help execute important alignment and safety priorities that don't otherwise have an owner. About the Role We are looking for a Research Program Manager for the Alignment team. You should expect to move between big, ambiguous questions and very concrete execution: writing a crisp project plan, tracking owners, chasing a decision, running a process, organizing a meeting, helping unblock a researcher, or picking up the operational work nobody else has time to do. OpenAI is a continuously evolving place, and this role will evolve with it. Some projects will be highly visible and strategic; others will...

About the Team The Premium team owns some of the highest-leverage customer-facing levers in ChatGPT's consumer revenue business, spanning the paid customer journey: helping users understand the value of paid plans, convert with confidence, and continue finding lasting value in their subscription. Our work is highly cross-functional, partnering with Product, Data Science, Design, FinEng, Finance, Legal, Support, and Marketing to improve free-to-paid conversion, renewal, customer lifetime value, and revenue while keeping the experience trustworthy, scalable, and low-friction. In This Role, You Will: Lead and scale an engineering team responsible for some of ChatGPT's most important subscription and monetization experiences. Own the technical execution for Premium customer experiences across plan merchandising, paywalls, upgrade flows, checkout UX, plan management, renewals, downgrades, and cancellation. Partner with Product and Data Science to run high-quality experiments...

About the Role As a Product Engagement Specialist on the User Operations team, you will help shepherd smooth, successful product launches across internal support teams and external partners. You will coordinate readiness efforts end-to-end while also building scalable systems that increase the efficacy of that end-to-end process. This is a high horsepower role spanning launch execution, enablement, and systems building-focused on durable mechanisms, rather than brute forcing your way into a successful launch. This role is based in San Francisco, CA (hybrid: 3 days in office) and offers relocation assistance. In this role, you will: Coordinate product launches across both internal and external teams to ensure seamless execution and support readiness. Build the mechanisms that make launches and feedback scalable; automation, playbooks, operating procedures, taxonomies, dashboards, and routing so your impact compounds over time instead of resetting every launch. Prototype...

About the Team The Tax team is evolving from a traditional compliance and provision function into a data-driven, AI-first operating model. We are building systems where complex tax work is structured, repeatable, scalable, and continuously improved through better data, workflows, and intelligent tooling. This team sits at the intersection of tax technical expertise, operating model design, data systems, and AI-enabled operations. Our goal is to reduce manual work, reduce reliance on institutional knowledge, improve auditability, and create faster, higher-quality tax insights for the business. About the Role As a Senior Manager, Tax Operations, you will help build and scale the tax infrastructure supporting complex business tax operations, strategic transactions, and forecasting. This is not a traditional provision or compliance role. Instead of primarily preparing returns or managing external advisors, you will help own and operationalize highly technical tax workstreams...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. About the Role We're seeking a Research-Hardware Codesign Engineer to operate at the boundary between model research and silicon/system architecture. You'll help shape the numerics, architecture, and technology bets of future OpenAI silicon in collaboration with both Research and Hardware. Your work will include debugging gaps between rooflines and reality, writing quantization kernels, derisking numerics via model...

About the Team OpenAI's Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team is responsible for building the next generation of AI-native silicon while working closely with software and research partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering production-grade silicon for OpenAI's supercomputing infrastructure, the team also creates custom design tools and methodologies that accelerate innovation and enable hardware optimized specifically for AI. Role summary We are seeking a Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer to help bootstrap and scale the switching layer of our AI supercomputers. In this role, you will build and maintain custom NOS images from scratch, using open source components from SONiC, SAI, FRR, and related networking stacks while working across the Linux kernel, switch ASIC SAI/SDKs, platform drivers, control-plane services, and...

About the Team The Product Policy team develops, implements, enforces, and communicates the policies that govern use of OpenAI's services, including ChatGPT, Codex, GPTs, and the OpenAI API. This cyber-focused role will help define how OpenAI enables legitimate cybersecurity work while reducing the risk that our products are misused for cyber abuse. This role sits at the intersection of AI capability, cybersecurity practice, and abuse prevention: helping defenders use OpenAI's tools effectively while setting clear boundaries against malicious cyber activity. About the Role As a Product Policy Manager specializing in Cyber, you will combine cyber and policy expertise to guide how OpenAI evaluates, launches, and governs capabilities relevant to cybersecurity. You will work closely with product, engineering, research, safety, security, legal, operations, and go-to-market teams to translate complex cyber risk into practical product policy, implementation standards, enforcement...

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Compute & Infrastructure team shares financial insights and partners with internal and external business stakeholders to manage the accounting and financial reporting for OpenAI's rapidly evolving infrastructure investments. The team supports a broad and increasingly complex portfolio of compute and infrastructure arrangements, including cloud computing, data centers, servers, equipment, rack financing, colocation arrangements, and other AI infrastructure deployments. We are responsible for ensuring financial accuracy, operational scalability, and informed decision-making as OpenAI continues to invest in advanced technologies and expand its infrastructure footprint. About the Role We are looking for an experienced and technically skilled accounting professional to manage the accounting and financial reporting for OpenAI's compute and...

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As a Technical Accounting Manager, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure and other strategic business activities. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, and cross-functional execution. You will be responsible for analyzing complex and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP, developing well-supported accounting conclusions, and translating...

About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays an indispensable role in advancing OpenAI's mission by navigating futuristic, foundational legal issues in AI. This is the team for you if you care deeply about doing meaningful and novel work with a team of technology lawyers. The team is composed of various backgrounds, including technology, venture capital, M&A, employment, and tax law. About the Role We're growing our world-class Litigation and Regulatory team and seek an experienced Senior-level Paralegal to support litigation, dispute resolution, and certain regulatory matters related to our business. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI, including work across our Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, and Executive teams. In addition, you will help develop/improve processes and programs to help our team operate efficiently. 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...

About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays an indispensable role in advancing OpenAI's mission by navigating futuristic, foundational legal issues in AI. This is the team for you if you care deeply about doing meaningful and novel work with a team of technology lawyers. The team is composed of various backgrounds, including technology, venture capital, M&A, employment, and tax law. We seek a Senior Employment Paralegal to join our team and provide paralegal and project management support and coordination across the employment legal team and its cross-functional partners including people and recruiting teams and employment litigation matters, as well as own, manage and build out / scale our paralegal support and function across multiple subject matter areas. 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: Serve as a strategic partner to Legal,...

About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering our mission by tackling innovative and fundamental legal issues in AI. The team includes professionals with expertise spanning technology, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation. If you're passionate about meaningful and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. About the Role We're looking for an employment lawyer to support a growing volume of complex employment work as the company scales and the pace of employment related issues increases. 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. Remote may be considered. In this role, you will: Provide advice and counsel to people and product teams on AI enablement and automation. Support on a broad range of employment legal matters. Work cross functionally with the People Team. Support on strategic...

About the Team The GTM Business Operations & Strategy team helps shape and scale how our B2B business grows across products, customer segments, and routes to market. We work closely with Product, Sales, Success, Data Science, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Security, and Operations to define strategic priorities, evaluate growth opportunities, and translate those priorities into the plans, processes, and cross-functional coordination required to execute well. Our work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. We help frame the most important questions facing the business, turn complex inputs into clear decisions and operating plans, and build the structures needed to move priority initiatives forward across teams. The team plays a central role in helping the organization stay focused on where to grow, how to execute, and what needs to be in place for new initiatives to scale successfully. About the Role We're looking for an exceptional operator to join our team to...

About the Team At OpenAI, our Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team builds and manages the environments that power our innovation. We create spaces that are efficient, scalable, and aligned with our mission - from strategic leasing decisions to the systems that keep our workplaces running smoothly. Joining this team means helping shape the environments where world-changing technology is built. About the Role We're looking for a Senior Leasing & Strategy Manager to lead high-impact projects and shape the strategic direction of OpenAI's global real estate portfolio. You'll partner with the Leasing and Transactions team to own the full lifecycle of lease transactions, with a strong emphasis on detailed lease review, financial analysis, and portfolio strategy. You'll also evaluate new opportunities, manage risks, and ensure all leasing decisions align with OpenAI's long-term business objectives. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3...