Subject Matter Expert, Legal
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will bring law firm experience to shape legal AI. In this hands-on individual contributor role you will define quality standards, design evaluations, create reference work, develop rubrics, evaluate model outputs, and work with Research, Product, and Engineering to improve legal AI.
Requirements
- Practiced law at a law firm with substantial experience on real client matters
- Deep expertise in one or more practice areas such as commercial transactions, corporate law, litigation, or regulatory work
- Excellent legal research and writing skills
- Ability to make expert judgment explicit
- Experience working with AI tools and collaborating with technical teams
- Ownership in ambiguous settings
Responsibilities
- Define the quality bar for top-notch legal work
- Design realistic AI model evaluations
- Create and review reference legal work such as memoranda, contract analyses, and redlines
- Develop rubrics assessing legal accuracy, issue spotting, citation validity, and jurisdictional context
- Evaluate model outputs and give actionable feedback to researchers and engineers
- Partner with Research on datasets, grading methods, and training tasks
- Work with Product and Engineering to prototype workflows and identify use cases
- Collaborate with legal professionals and design partners to refine standards
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
