Legal Counsel

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About the Role We are seeking an experienced commercial attorney to serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics. In this role, you will provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel across hardware development, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and strategic commercial initiatives. You will work closely with Robotics leadership and cross-functional partners to help build scalable legal frameworks that enable innovation while thoughtfully managing risk. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the legal foundation of a rapidly growing robotics organization developing cutting-edge technologies. You will negotiate high-impact commercial agreements, advise on complex operational matters, and partner closely with technical and business teams to support the development and commercialization of next-generation robotics systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 4 days a week. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary legal partner supporting Robotics leadership and cross-functional teams. Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams across hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, procurement, finance, and operations. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including supplier, manufacturing, development, consulting, licensing, procurement, and strategic partnership agreements. Advise on legal issues arising throughout the hardware development lifecycle, including manufacturing, supply chain operations, vendor relatio

About the Team At OpenAI, our User Operations team safeguards our products and users from legal risk, regulatory non-compliance, fraud, and abuse. The team operates at the intersection of operations, compliance, and user trust, embedded within the broader User Operations organization and collaborating cross-functionally with Legal, Governance Risk & Compliance, Policy and Engineering. We support a global and diverse user base across OpenAI’s suite of product offerings, and developer tools by managing sensitive inbound tickets, regulatory obligations, and escalations. Every user-facing action is grounded in our commitment to legal integrity, ethical practice, and regulatory excellence. About the Role We are seeking an independent, adaptive, and operations-minded Regulatory Operations Analyst to help scale and evolve OpenAI’s global regulatory and compliance operations from San Francisco. This role focuses on complex regulatory operations, including work under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and EU AI Act, as well as regulatory inquiries and complaints across the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. You’ll manage sensitive cases independently, exercise sound judgment on escalations, and work closely with Legal Counsel, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), and other cross-functional partners. You’ll also bring a working understanding of privacy and intellectual property matters so you can recognize and escalate related issues when needed. Beyond frontline casework, you’ll help shape the documentation, workflows, tooling, and automation that support safe, scalable and regulatory and legal compliance operations. This role is essential to building scalable, high-integrity operations that protect user rights, meet our obligations under emerging and current regulations. You’ll also contribute to multi-phase transitions and automation efforts that support our long-term operational model. Please note: This role may involve exposure to sensitive or concerning content, including

Perplexity is looking for a commercially minded attorney to join our Legal team. In this role, you’ll own the full commercial legal lifecycle. You will draft, negotiate, and close a wide range of agreements across partnerships, procurement, infrastructure, and licensing. You will build scalable legal infrastructure and enable the business to move quickly without unacceptable risk. You’ll work closely with teams across the business, including product, engineering, security, finance, and sales to close deals, strengthen our data security and compliance posture, and serve as a trusted advisor on the AI-specific legal questions that come with operating at the frontier of this technology. The ideal candidate brings deep experience negotiating a wide range of commercial technology agreements, including infrastructure and compute procurement agreements, a strong command of data privacy and security frameworks, and the practical judgment to make principled risk calls independently. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, knows how to be a true partner to the business without being a bottleneck, and is excited to help build a best-in-class legal function at one of the most consequential AI companies in the world. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements, including MSAs, SaaS and API agreements, DPAs, partnership and reseller agreements, strategic collaboration and co-marketing agreements, procurement and vendor contracts, technology and infrastructure agreements, and IP licensing arrangements. Serve as a primary legal partner across the business, providing fast, practical, and business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity without compromising on risk Management. Provide strategic counsel on legal risks across AI infrastructure, compute, partnerships, and enterprise deployments as the company scales. Advise on AI-specific legal considerations in commercial agreements,

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 professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation. About the Role As a member of our Product Counsel team, you will advise on a broad range of issues arising from hardware products and technologies, with a focus on software that power them. You’ll work closely with software engineering, product, design, and business teams from development through launch and ongoing support. This is a unique opportunity to engage directly with the forefront of AI legal issues. This role reports to our DGC of Hardware. 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: Work closely with product and engineering teams, participate in architecture and product reviews, and advise throughout development, launch, and ongoing support. Support software and firmware licensing, open-source, compatibility and ongoing device support. Provide broad product counseling on consumer experiences, user terms, disclosures, marketing claims, consumer protection and regulatory requirements. Advise and coordinate on product, commercial, IP, privacy, security, competition, and regulatory legal issues so product decisions and external commitments are consistent. Build practical guidance and review processes, adapt support to changing priorities, and take ownership of emerging issues across teams. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial product counseling for consumer devices, software embedded in hardware, gained in-house, at a technology-focused law firm, or both. Can work with

About us Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor . Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. What you’ll do We're hiring a Product Counsel to be a core member of Sierra's growing legal team. This role will report to our Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy, as part of our growing product legal function. We are looking for someone who has deep expertise in product counseling for AI or other emerging technologies. You will be a legal partner for Sierra’s product and engineering teams, and help shape how our products go to market responsibly, ensuring privacy, compliance, and risk considerations are embedded throughout the product lifecycle. You will thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy tackling challenges beyond your comfort zone, and be excited to contribute across the business. In return, we'll provide the support and opportunities you n

Summary of Role Perplexity AI is looking for a Principal Counsel, Corporate to serve as the company’s primary lawyer for corporate governance, equity, and financing matters. In this role, you’ll own the full corporate legal lifecycle, from board and stockholder governance and equity administration to financings, secondary transactions, and entity management as we scale globally. You’ll work closely with our Finance, Accounting, Tax and People teams, as well as with our executive team and investors. You’ll drive transactions from term sheet through closing, build the governance infrastructure that keeps a rapidly growing private company well-run, and stand up the templates, playbooks, and records systems that let corporate work scale without adding headcount. The ideal candidate brings deep private-company corporate and securities experience, precision with cap-table and equity mechanics, and the judgment to make principled calls independently. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for a corporate attorney who thrives in fast-paced environments, is comfortable being the first and only owner of a workstream, and is excited to help build a best-in-class legal function at one of the most consequential AI companies in the world. Key Responsibilities Lead corporate governance for Perplexity and its subsidiaries, including board and committee meeting preparation, agendas, minutes, resolutions and written consents, charters, organizational documents, corporate policies, and the corporate records that keep the company well-governed as it scales. Structure, draft, and negotiate equity and debt financings from term sheet through closing, including preferred stock financings, credit facilities, convertible instruments, and related diligence and closing deliverables. Own secondary transactions and liquidity programs, including tender offers, company repurchases, direct secondaries, transfer approvals and the related stockholder communications and consents. Partner with Finance, A