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Associate General Counsel, Hardware IP

OpenAI · San Francisco

$347k - $385k/yrRemoteEntry levelLegalLegalLegalPosted 8 weeks ago
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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 legal professionals from diverse fields, including technology, privacy, IP, corporate, cybersecurity, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation. About the Role We’re growing our world-class Legal team and seek an experienced counsel to lead our global hardware IP portfolio initiatives, including patent, trademark and other intellectual property matters related to our business. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI, including work across our Legal, Communications, Global Affairs, Product, Research and Executive teams. 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 global hardware IP initiatives, including setting and executing on the strategic direction and management of our hardware IP portfolio. - Create scalable processes internally and externally with outside counsel to build, maintain and protect our hardware IP portfolio. - Developing and maintaining internal hardware IP policies and programs. - Engaging externally on hardware IP policy issues. - Advising on strategic hardware IP deals. - Advising on hardware IP issues, ranging from patent, trademark, trade secret to open source. - Developing and building internal AI expertise, processes and tools to facilitate legal team work. - Experience advising on complex technology transactions and inbound technology licensing. You might thrive in this role if you: - Have at least 10+ years of combined hardware IP experience at innovative technology companies and law firms. - Have a JD and license or qualification to practice in CA. - Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about techn

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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