Subject Matter Expert, Legal
Openai·San Francisco·Remote·Posted 10 November 2026
About the role
About the Team We are building AI systems that help people tackle complex, consequential work in the legal industry. Law demands careful reasoning, precise language, and sound judgment: understanding the facts, identifying the right questions, weighing competing interpretations, and helping clients decide what to do next. We see an opportunity for AI to help legal professionals work with greater rigor and focus more of their time on the problems that matter most. Our team works across Research, Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market to build AI capabilities and products for legal work. Our customers include the top law firms in the world as well as in-house legal departments of some of the largest businesses in the world. We translate the realities of practice into evaluations, training signals, and useful tools, with the ambition of making AI a trusted part of how lawyers research, analyze, draft, and advise. About the Role We are looking for a Subject Matter Expert in Law who brings the judgment and practical experience developed in a law firm to shaping the next generation of AI. You will help define what excellent legal work looks like, test where our models meet that…
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