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About the Role
This attorney will be the second hire in the legal team, reporting directly to the Head of Legal. The role involves working closely with the business to support government contracts, negotiate agreements, and build essential legal infrastructure for a scaling company. The position offers the opportunity to handle a wide range of legal issues in a fast-paced, mission-oriented environment.
Responsibilities
- Be the second member of Code Metal's small, dynamic legal team, reporting to the Head of Legal and partnering daily with the business.
- Drive customer growth by executing new government contracts and expanding existing ones, using command of federal procurement law to help Business Development, Proposal, and Engineering efficiently capture new work, grow current contracts, and set up follow-on opportunities, and contributing to new-business strategy.
- Provide legal counsel and day-to-day management across the acquisition lifecycle: evaluate major proposals, monitor large contracts, lead or support key negotiations, resolve performance issues, and identify risks and mitigations.
- Develop and maintain high-trust relationships with contracting officers and procurement officials at government agencies.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including software license and SaaS agreements, MSAs, professional services agreements, reseller, teaming, and partner agreements, subcontracts, NDAs, and data processing agreements.
- Advise on and negotiate U.S. Government terms and conditions, including OTAs, FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, flow-down clauses, and the cybersecurity, data rights, and privacy regulations governing federal software and services contracts.
- Handle the legal issues that arise across a government-facing technology business—from bid protests and litigation to intellectual property and data rights, compliance, and employment matters—working with outside counsel, vendors, engineers, executives, customers, and regulators.
- Help build and maintain a practical, business-centric government contracts compliance program, including scalable policies, procedures, templates, and playbooks across FAR/DFARS, OTAs, SBIR/STTR, and related procurement authorities.
- Monitor developments in government procurement, cybersecurity, and AI and technology policy, and proactively advise the business on the risks and opportunities they create.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with the bar of the state of your office—California, the District of Columbia, or Massachusetts.
- 5–7 years of relevant experience across U.S. Government contracts and/or commercial technology transactions, at a leading law firm, in-house at a government contractor, or in government (a combination is ideal).
- A solid understanding of the federal procurement process—including contract vehicles and types, non-traditional and commercial-item acquisition, CAS coverage, software acquisition approaches, and data rights issues.
- A track record of drafting and negotiating technology, software licensing, or SaaS agreements, and the judgment and initiative to own multiple matters end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex contractual and regulatory issues clearly to business stakeholders.
- A quick, independent learner able to contribute across a broad startup legal function—including topics that may be new to you—and to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders at once.
- Must be a U.S. Person, given required access to U.S. export-controlled information (ITAR/EAR).
Skills
- Federal procurement law
- Commercial agreements negotiation
- Software license agreements
- SaaS agreements
- U.S. Government contracts
- OTAs
- FAR
- DFARS
- Cybersecurity regulations
- Data rights regulations
- Privacy regulations
- Bid protests
- Litigation
- Intellectual property
- Compliance
- Employment matters
- Government contracts compliance program development
- Procurement vehicles and frameworks (GSA schedules, GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs, OTAs, SBIR/STTR)
- Subcontracting structures
- Cybersecurity and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST SP 800-171)
- Export controls (ITAR/EAR)
- Government software licensing
Location
- California
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- Hybrid
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
- More senior candidates encouraged to apply
Education Level
- J.D. from an accredited law school
- Active bar membership
Salary/Compensations
- Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
- The salary range for this role is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual proficiency, skills, experience, and location.
Benefits
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k with 5% matching
- Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees
About the Company
- Code Metal is redefining code translation for mission-critical industries, helping defense partners move more quickly and reliably from algorithm to silicon.
- Our platform accelerates deployment of DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal processing algorithms onto heterogeneous compute targets, including GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs.
- We also support automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor partners deploying complex algorithms onto constrained hardware with speed and rigor.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.