Senior Legal Counsel - Customer, Technology & Intellectual Property

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies in Australia is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel: Customer, Technology & IP to provide strategic, commercially focused legal support across customer, technology and IP matters related to the AI Factory platform.

Reporting to the General Counsel, you will negotiate significant customer engagements, advise on privacy, data protection and export controls, and help shape templates, policies and risk management across the business.

Qualifications

• PQE 8-10 years with top-tier law firm or in-house
• Experience in tech, IP, privacy, data protection and contracting
• Able to negotiate complex customer and technology deals
• Strong commercial judgment and proactive risk management
• Excellent stakeholder communication and negotiation skills

Responsibilities

• Lead customer and commercial negotiations for Firmus' AI platform
• Draft and negotiate technology, software, SaaS and IT contracts
• Protect and license intellectual property; manage IP matters
• Ensure regulatory, privacy, data protection and export control compliance
• Address consumer law and fair trading considerations
• Develop and maintain legal templates, policies and frameworks
• Provide risk-aware advice across business units

Job description

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.

At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory. Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction. For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.

Firmus Technologies

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.

At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory. Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction. For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.

Firmus AI Cloud

Our large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers.

It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings. With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.

Why Firmus?

As an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, you will gain skills, experience, and exposure across the AI industry and be part of shaping what this industry looks like for decades to come.

We are founder-led, not a big corporate. Decisions happen fast, our leaders are accessible, and there's minimum bureaucracy between you and the work. Ownership comes early. Whatever your role, you will have a direct line to outcomes, helping shape how the business grows as we scale nationally across a long-term, large-scale roadmap.

Work alongside founders and experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems and next-generation compute.

What we build here has impact beyond the business. Our AI Factories are designed to operate as assets to the energy grid to actively strengthen the communities and regions they operate in rather than drawing from them.

Considering applying? You don't need a perfect background to join our team. If you're driven and curious, there's a path for you. We back our people to grow into new domains and take on challenges beyond their previous experience.

Role Summary

The Senior Legal Counsel: Customer, Technology & IP is a senior member of the Legal team, responsible for providing strategic, commercially focused legal support across Firmus' customer, technology and intellectual property activities. Reporting to the General Counsel, the role serves as a trusted adviser to business leaders on complex legal, commercial and regulatory matters, helping the Company identify opportunities, manage risk and execute on its growth strategy.

Working closely with teams across sales, product, technology, operations, security and commercial functions, the Senior Legal Counsel will support the negotiation and management of customer and commercial arrangements that underpin Firmus' AI Factory platform. The role will lead legal support for significant customer engagements, technology initiatives and intellectual property matters, while providing practical, solutions-oriented advice in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical legal expertise with commercial judgment, a collaborative approach and the ability to operate autonomously across a broad range of matters. This is an opportunity to work on industry-leading projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, cloud computing and technology while contributing to the growth of one of the region's most innovative infrastructure platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer agreements and strategic commercial arrangements
• Technology, software, SaaS and IT contracting
• Intellectual property protection, licensing and commercialisation
• Regulatory compliance, including privacy, data protection and export controls
• Consumer law and fair trading matters
• Product, platform and technology-related legal support
• Legal risk management and regulatory compliance
• Development and maintenance of legal templates, policies and frameworks

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years' post-qualification experience (PQE).
• Experience gained in a top-tier law firm and/or a sophisticated in-house legal environment.
• Strong experience across technology, intellectual property, privacy, data protection, customer contracting, consumer law and commercial contracting.
• Proven ability to negotiate and manage complex customer, technology and commercial arrangements.
• Strong commercial judgment and pragmatic approach to legal risk.
• Ability to operate autonomously and provide clear, solutions-focused advice in a fast-paced, growth-oriented business.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in technology, cloud, software, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, AI or data centre sectors.
• Experience advising on privacy, cybersecurity, technology procurement, software licensing and cross-border regulatory matters.
• Experience supporting rapidly scaling technology businesses and enterprise customer environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent legal qualification.
• Admission as a legal practitioner in Australia and eligibility to hold a practising certificate.

Location & Reporting

• Location: Sydney, Melbourne or Singapore
• Reports to: General Counsel & Company Secretary

Employment Basis

Permanent full-time

Diversity

At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.

Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering.