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About the Role

SF Compute is seeking a Commercial Counsel to build and scale our commercial legal function, partnering with various teams to structure, negotiate, and execute high-impact commercial agreements. This role involves owning a broad range of commercial transactions and requires a practical, business-oriented attorney adept at navigating ambiguity and building scalable processes in a fast-moving tech environment.

Responsibilities

Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, including enterprise customer agreements, master services agreements, vendor agreements, technology agreements, strategic partnerships, NDAs, and other similar contracts.
Partner with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to structure deals that align with business objectives while appropriately managing legal and commercial risk.
Serve as a trusted legal advisor to business teams, providing practical guidance on contract strategy, negotiation approaches, and business tradeoffs.
Support commercial transactions involving AI infrastructure, compute services, data center operations, technology partnerships, and other strategic initiatives.
Develop and improve contract processes, playbooks, and frameworks that enable teams to move faster while maintaining appropriate controls.
Identify and proactively address legal, regulatory, privacy, intellectual property, and operational considerations impacting commercial activities.
Work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive deals from initial discussions through execution.
Bring strong ownership and judgment to new and evolving legal challenges as the company scales.

Requirements

JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
3-5+ years of legal experience, including experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal team.
Strong experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of complex commercial technology agreements.
Experience supporting technology companies, cloud infrastructure, AI, data centers, SaaS, hardware, or other technical businesses strongly preferred.
Ability to understand complex technical products and translate business objectives into practical legal solutions.
Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

3-5+ years

Education Level

JD from an accredited law school

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Generous equity grant
Competitive salary along with equity in the company
Visa Sponsorships
401(k) plans up to 4% match
Competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents
100% of medical, dental, vision premiums covered
Unlimited paid time off
10+ observed holidays
Paid parental leave (biological, adoptive, and foster parents)
Daily lunch covered
Unlimited office book budget

About the Company

We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.
When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.
Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.
If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?
Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.
So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

Equal Opportunity

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.
We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.
We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.