Associate General Counsel, Advanced AI & Privacy
350k – 425kSan Francisco, CALegalOnsite10+ YOE
Summary
Provide legal counsel on advanced AI development, privacy strategy, and novel risks at a leading AI lab. Build practical governance frameworks covering training, fine-tuning, enterprise use, and safety.
About the role
What You'll Do
- Advise research, engineering, product, and cross-functional partners on legal issues arising from the development and release of advanced AI systems.
- Build legal frameworks for AI & privacy governance for developing and operating AI systems that are actually practical—covering training, customization, fine-tuning, developer tools, enterprise use cases, benchmarking, release strategy, and more.
- Support research teams to advance research on AI safety and model vulnerabilities, advising on vendor engagements, external collaborations, and data usage.
- Identify and address novel legal risks across diverse legal subject matter—IP, privacy, data rights, safety, consumer protection, platform governance—and a range of development domains—training, customization, fine-tuning, developer tools, enterprise use cases, benchmarking, safety activities and mitigations, release strategy, monitoring.
Skills and Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- 10+ years of legal experience, with significant expertise in product counseling, program development, AI regulation, and privacy.
- Client counseling skills, with the ability to exercise judgment under uncertainty and communicate practical, solution-focused advice.
- Experience working directly with technical staff and can hold your own in a conversation about model training pipelines.
Preferred qualifications:
- In-house experience at a technology company shipping products with novel legal risk, ideally on legal issues for AI products, services, or academic research, with knowledge of the machine learning development lifecycle.
- Experience working on AI-powered products, AI and privacy programs, or privacy-implicating products.
- Strong familiarity with global AI regulation, data privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory issues specific to the AI domain.
Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation: $350,000–$425,000 USD annual salary range.
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relocation support as needed.
- Visa sponsorship available.
Skills
AI regulationData privacyIntellectual property lawProduct counselingProgram developmentAI governanceModel training pipelinesVendor managementRisk assessmentLegal frameworks
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