Senior Counsel, Commercial & Product

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is seeking an attorney to lead the agreements that support our research and products, and provide compliance and counseling for those activities.

You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, GTM, security, safety, privacy, and product counseling teams to enable partnerships across enterprise deals, data licensing, and open source considerations. You will own the development of playbooks and processes to accelerate deal velocity while ensuring legal

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience with tech transactions, IP and privacy issues.
• Client counseling skills with judgment under uncertainty.
• Experience working directly with technical staff and counterparties.

Responsibilities

• Advise on legal issues arising from agreements and partnerships supporting AI development and release.
• Draft, negotiate, and review enterprise deals, data licensing, tech transactions, grants, collaborations, and product partnerships.
• Partner with product, research, and go-to-market teams to support timelines and core legal strategy.
• Develop legal infrastructure including playbooks, systems, automation, and outside counsel relationships.
• Support compliance and counseling across pipelines, operations, initiatives and launches.

Skills

Legal experience 8+ years

IP and privacy expertise

Client counseling

Experience with technical staff

Job description

We’re looking for an attorney to lead the agreements that support our research and products, and support our compliance and counseling for those activities.

You’ll work directly with teams across research, engineering, product, go-to-market, security, safety, privacy, and product counseling to support agreements across a broad range of areas, including enterprise deals, data licensing and tech transactions, grants and research collaborations, product and safety partnerships, and open source considerations. Your work will shape how we partner with vendors, collaborators, and customers to develop and share our technology with the world. You’ll also support our counseling and compliance on our core AI research and products.

What You'll Do

• 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 and 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.

Preferred qualifications—we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these:

• In-house experience at a technology company shipping products with novel legal risk, ideally on legal issues for AI products, services, or research, with knowledge of the research development lifecycle
• 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.

Logistics

• Location: This role is based in San Francisco, California.
• Compensation: Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $300,000-$360,000 USD.
• Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
• Benefits: Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.

As set forth in Thinking Machines' Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.