Senior AI / ML Counsel
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management, building an ecosystem of partners that simplifies securing, protecting, managing and deriving value from data across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.
We're seeking a highly motivated attorney to serve as the lead IP counsel for all Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI / ML) issues. Reporting directly to the VP of IP & P, you will provide subject-matter expertise on emerging AI / ML trends, regulations, and technology and support engineering and business teams as they develop and deploy foundation models, tools, and associated data.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for all AI / ML legal issues, coordinating cross-functionally and within legal.
- Influence product development plans related to legal and compliance use cases that benefit our customers.
- Collaborate with the patent team to implement IP protection strategy for AI / ML innovations.
- Collaborate with OSS and transactional legal teams to ensure license compliance.
- Collaborate across legal regarding adjacent contractual, privacy, and regulatory implications.
- Advise / negotiate on AI / ML contractual provisions and create AI / ML playbook provisions.
- Build processes and tools to scale compliance support for AI / ML products and services.
- Prepare and provide AI / ML training to internal stakeholders.
- Counsel on legal risk mitigation through technical architecture and product design.
- Develop strong relationships with cross-functional partners (Engineering, Product Management, Product Security, Info Sec, and other Legal teams) to identify and proactively protect products, projects, and services.
- Drive special projects, establishing strategies, guidelines, processes, and procedures, to enable the IP and broader legal team to provide best-in-class service to its partners.
- Provide executive roll-up information related to industry trends and risks.
- Present to executives and Board members along with the CLO and other senior members of legal.
Qualifications
10+ years of legal experience in a law firm and corporate environment.JD degree with excellent academic credentials.Substantive AI / ML technical and legal expertise.Degree in engineering or computer science preferred.Registered Patent attorney with prior in-house patent experience highly preferred.Open source licensing experience preferred.Passion for AI and learning new areas of technology and evolving IP law.Highly collaborative, patient and capable of influencing diverse groups across the company.Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills capable of proposing solutions to complex IP issues.Strong project management and organizational skills, able to manage multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment.Team-oriented mindset with strong ethics, integrity, and sound judgment.Superb written and verbal communication skills for all business levels, including executives / board.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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