Senior Counsel, Commercial (Infrastructure)

About the Team OpenAI’s Legal team plays a crucial role in advancing our mission by tackling novel and consequential legal issues in AI. The commercial infrastructure legal team supports the systems and facilities that make advanced AI possible, including compute, first-party silicon, colocation, and first-party data center development. About the Role We’re seeking a senior commercial infrastructure lawyer to lead legal work across our rapidly growing data center development and colocation portfolio. You will advise on complex, high-value transactions involving new data center sites, power, construction, colocation, and related infrastructure arrangements. This role is designed for a lawyer who understands how data centers are developed and operated—not a general real estate practitioner. You will work closely with infrastructure, finance, procurement, and operations teams, while coordinating outside counsel where appropriate, to help projects move quickly and responsibly. San Francisco is preferred, and occasional travel may be required. In this role, you will: Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for data center development and colocation transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on colocation agreements, construction agreements, power-related arrangements, and other contracts supporting data center development. Support first-party projects involving raw land, site and power rights, design and construction, EPC models, third-party build-to-suit structures, and leasebacks. Partner cross-functionally with infrastructure, finance, procurement, operations, and other stakeholders on fast-moving, complex projects. Manage and collaborate effectively with outside counsel across a high volume of infrastructure matters. Develop scalable legal playbooks and contracting approaches for a growing portfolio of data center sites. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of legal experience, primarily in commercial legal roles. Deep, hands-on experience

About the Role We’re seeking an Associate General Counsel to lead commercial legal strategy and execution for OpenAI’s silicon initiatives and the semiconductor ecosystem that supports our AI infrastructure. This is a senior, highly cross-functional role for a lawyer who can advise business and technical leaders across the semiconductor development, manufacturing, and supply lifecycle. The role will partner closely with silicon engineering, infrastructure, strategic sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, partnerships, IP, policy, regulatory, and trade compliance teams to structure and negotiate strategic arrangements with semiconductor ecosystem partners, technology providers, and critical suppliers. This person will help establish the commercial frameworks needed to protect OpenAI’s technology and support resilient, scalable commercial arrangements. We’re looking for an experienced technology transactions lawyer with meaningful semiconductor industry experience who can translate highly technical and operational issues into practical commercial structures. The ideal candidate combines strong judgment, commercial creativity, and the ability to lead complex, high-value transactions in a fast-moving and complex global ecosystem. 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. This role will: Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI’s silicon and related technology initiatives. Advise senior business, engineering, sourcing, and operational stakeholders on strategic relationships, commercial priorities, and complex transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on sophisticated development, manufacturing, supply, licensing, services, and strategic partnership agreements. Structure commercial arrangements that support long-term business and operational requirements. Advise on the commercial and operational issues that arise across the developmen

About the team The Capital Markets team develops the financing strategy, solutions, and partnerships needed to support our expanding global AI infrastructure platform and long-term investment plans. About the role We’re looking for a structured finance professional to serve as a technical execution engine for a lean, high-impact capital markets team. In this role, you’ll own the models, analysis, diligence, process management, and key execution workstreams behind standardized or more “vanilla” financings, while partnering with senior transactors on more complex transactions. This is not a junior analyst role. You’ll need the experience and maturity to work directly with senior leaders, banks, investors, counsel, and advisors without multiple layers of review. You should be highly capable in the details, strong under transaction intensity, and ready to help build financing processes for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure platform. What you’ll do Translate financing objectives into clear analyses, recommendations, timelines, and deliverables. Support senior transactors on complex financings, including structuring, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing. Lead analysis, diligence, process tracking, and execution workstreams for financing transactions. Own transaction models, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation. Work directly with internal stakeholders, banks, investors, counsel, advisors, and other counterparties. Review transaction documentation and help ensure commercial, financial, and diligence details are reflected accurately. Manage high-volume, detail-intensive workstreams in a lean team environment. Help develop repeatable tools, processes, and analytical infrastructure as the capital markets function scales. You might thrive in this role if you have At least 4-6 years of directly relevant experience in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a

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

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this Role? Join our team as Senior Counsel, Product and Technology to shape the legal framework for our product development and commercialization. This position offers the exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of technology innovation, intellectual property strategy, and business development, providing critical guidance that enables our products to reach market efficiently while managing legal risks. The ideal candidate is an experienced technology lawyer who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to make a direct impact on product success. As a member of our Legal Team, you will: Create standardized templates, playbooks, and guidelines for product contract terms to improve efficiency and consistency, and ensure alignment with product capabilities. Provide strategic guidance on and manage intellectual property risks across Cohere’s product portfolio, including open source software (OSS) compliance and third-party software integration. Identify and mitigate legal risks throughout the product lifecycle, working closely with product regulatory and commercial counsel to manage regulatory compliance, liability ex

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 AI Product Counsel team, you will advise the teams building and deploying OpenAI’s business products, including ChatGPT Business, ChatGPT Enterprise, and our API platform. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Safety, Security, Privacy, Strategy, Go-to-Market, and other Legal teams on issues spanning enterprise product development, model launches, customer data protections, administrative controls, strategic partnerships, and the responsible deployment of increasingly capable AI models. This is a unique opportunity to help shape how frontier AI products are built and delivered to businesses. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Serve as a strategic legal partner to teams developing ChatGPT’s business products, enterprise features, and API offerings. Advise on product design and launches involving enterprise administration, data governance, identity and access, connectors and integrations, agentic capabilities, and voice and multimodal experiences in the B2B space. Counsel teams on deploying frontier AI capabilities responsibly while balancing customer commitments, safety, security, and privacy. Support strategic partnerships and distribution arrangements, including cloud platforms, resellers, and other third-party channels through which customers access OpenAI models. Partner with Commercial Legal, Privacy, Security, Safety, Product and Product Policy, and Go-to-Market teams on custom