Sr. AI Counsel
Job description
This role exists to guide how Rubrik uses artificial intelligence, translating evolving legal expectations into practical guardrails for builders and operators. The position focuses on machine learning, large language models, and data-related rules while managing risk across products and teams.
About The Team
Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world's data and our Legal Team is committed to supporting this mission, offering critical guidance across many areas of the business.
About The Role
Our growing AI Legal Team is looking for a lawyer who has a deep interest and understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and is excited by the prospect of exploring the expanding legal landscape raised by this cutting edge technology. Ongoing advances in AI bring the promise of substantial gains in innovation and productivity but also raise complex issues relating to intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, security, and more.
As a Sr. AI Counsel, you will help guide Rubrik's continuing journey to harness the power of AI while mitigating risks. In this role, you will drive continuous improvements in our approach to AI and strengthen our review processes and controls, empowering Rubrik to embrace the power and promise of AI in a safe, responsible, and transparent manner. We are looking for a lawyer who is technologically inclined, is a pragmatic and business-oriented problem solver, likes to move quickly, and enjoys cross-functional collaboration, as you will be partnering with many teams, including Product, Engineering, Information Security, and of course, various teams across Legal.
What You'll Do
- Ensure that our use of AI complies with laws and regulations, meets our contractual obligations, and aligns with our security requirements.
- Enable adoption of AI tools to boost productivity and the launch of AI-powered products and features while mitigating legal, compliance, security, and business risks.
- Draft and negotiate AI terms in contracts with our vendors and our customers.
- Coordinate our review processes for use of generative AI and other advanced AI technologies.
- Educate our employees on AI issues.
- Improve our AI review processes to make them more effective, comprehensive, and efficient.
What You'll Shape
- Setting boundaries for AI use so contracts, security, and privacy rules are honored across Rubrik products.
- Building workflows that let teams adopt AI tools safely, tracking rules for LLM, NLP, and retrieval augmented generation.
- Drafting terms for vendors and customers, reviewing AI clauses inside privacy, copyright, and licensing scopes.
- Coordinating intake of AI requests, tagging issues, and routing them to security, product, and engineering partners.
- Reviewing model outputs and deployment plans, documenting risks, and improving checklists for responsible AI.
- Educating staff on AI regulations, including EU AI Act expectations and NIST AI RMF alignment for new features.
- Improving review controls so processes cover model changes, data handling, and vendor agreements without delay.
- Partnering with technologists to learn systems quickly, ensuring governance supports shipping AI features at speed.
Experience You'll Need
- You hold a license to practice law and a law degree from an accredited law school, with five or more years of relevant legal experience, including in-house experience at a technology company.
- You are familiar with AI models and concepts such as machine learning, LLMs, NLP, retrieval augmented generation, and AI agents.
- You understand AI-related regulations and frameworks, including the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
- You have experience in one or more of the following areas: data and privacy regulations, customer contracts or licensing, vendor contracts or procurement, copyright or technology law, product review and counseling, or industry compliance standards.
- You are comfortable diving into technical details and able to quickly learn new technologies.
- You have software-related technical expertise, experience, or educational background.
- You possess excellent communication and organizational skills.
- You can prioritize and manage simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment.
Nice To Have
- Experience reviewing AI products, writing policy, or working inside cloud- and security-focused legal groups.
Practical Notes
Location is United States. Engagement is full time. Compensation for this role is $177,800 - $266,600 USD, subject to bonus potential, equity, and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries based on U.S. location. Final offers will consider work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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