Senior Counsel — AI Tech Transactions & Partnerships

Thinking Machines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Thinking Machines is seeking an attorney to lead the agreements that support its research and products, and to counsel on compliance for those activities. You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, go-to-market, security, safety, privacy and product counsel to support a broad range of enterprise deals, data licensing, tech transactions, grants and collaborations.

You will also shape vendor and partner relationships, develop playbooks and systems, and drive deal velocity while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with significant expertise in technology transactions and IP and privacy issues.
• Client counseling skills, with the ability to exercise judgment under uncertainty and communicate practical, solution-focused advice.
• Experience working directly with technical staff and technical counterparties.
• In-house experience at a technology company shipping products with novel legal risk, ideally on legal issues for AI products, services, or research.
• Experience negotiating and drafting agreements involving enterprise technology products, data licensing, research collaborations and grant programs, safety partnerships, or product integrations, ideally for AI products, services, or research.
• Experience advising on open source licensing.
• Strong familiarity with global legal and regulatory frameworks in AI, data privacy, and intellectual property.

Responsibilities

• Advise research, engineering, product, and cross-functional partners on legal issues arising from agreements and partnerships supporting the development and release of advanced AI.
• Draft, negotiate, and review agreements across domains, including enterprise deals, data licensing and tech transactions, grants and research collaborations, product partnerships, safety partnerships, and novel arrangements.
• Partner closely with product, research, and go-to-market teams to support company timelines while also supporting core legal strategies.
• Own legal infrastructure–including developing playbooks, systems, automation, outside counsel relationships–to support deal velocity, efficiency, and quality.
• Support compliance and counseling on research, product, and partnership pipelines, operations, initiatives and launches.

Skills

Technology transactions

IP and privacy issues

Client counseling

Technical staff liaison

Job description

Thinking Machines is seeking an attorney to lead the agreements that support its research and products, and to counsel on compliance for those activities. You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, go-to-market, security, safety, privacy and product counsel to support a broad range of enterprise deals, data licensing, tech transactions, grants and collaborations.

You will also shape vendor and partner relationships, develop playbooks and systems, and drive deal velocity while