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About the Role
We are looking for an attorney to lead agreements supporting our research and products, and to provide compliance and counseling for those activities. You will collaborate with various teams to support agreements across enterprise deals, data licensing, tech transactions, grants, research collaborations, product and safety partnerships, and open source considerations. Your work will influence how we partner with others to develop and share our technology, and you will also support compliance and counseling on our core AI research and products.
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, and outside counsel relationships, to support deal velocity, efficiency, and quality.
- Support compliance and counseling on research, product, and partnership pipelines, operations, initiatives, and launches.
Requirements
- 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, 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.
Skills
- Technology transactions
- IP
- Privacy issues
- Client counseling
- Judgment under uncertainty
- Practical, solution-focused advice
- Working with technical staff and counterparties
- AI products, services, or research legal issues
- Research development lifecycle
- Enterprise technology products agreements
- Data licensing agreements
- Research collaborations and grant programs agreements
- Safety partnerships agreements
- Product integrations agreements
- Open source licensing
- Global legal and regulatory frameworks in AI, data privacy, and intellectual property
Location
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience
Salary/Compensations
- $300,000-$360,000 USD
Benefits
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
- Visa sponsorship
About the Company
- The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment.
- We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own, and crafting interfaces that broaden human-AI communication.
- We believe the future worth building is human, and we're hiring people who want to build it.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.