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About the Role

As Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel, you will be the dedicated legal partner to the teams building Scientific Superintelligence™, our AI research organization, our AI Science Factory™ platform, and the data, safety, and security functions that support them. You will own the legal questions that come with training frontier models on scientific data and running experiments autonomously. This is a build role where you will frequently design the framework rather than apply one. You'll partner daily with scientists, ML researchers, platform engineers, and our safety and security teams, and closely with our privacy, commercial, and go-to-market colleagues. You will translate between technical reality and legal risk.

Responsibilities

Advise research and data teams on permissible data usage across the training pipeline, and build the provenance and acquisition frameworks that govern what goes into Lila's models
Serve as a subject matter expert on copyright, licensing, privacy, and contractual restrictions as applied to training data
Support structuring and negotiation of data licensing, material transfer, consortium, and research collaboration agreements
Advise on release decisions for models, agents, tools, and datasets, including open-weight strategy and the application of open-source licenses
Coordinate legal readiness for model and platform launches
Support publication and disclosure review, balancing scientific openness against partner obligations and safety considerations
Counsel research teams on research design, data collection and sharing, external collaborations, and program launches
Counsel platform teams on legal considerations for autonomous experimentation and agentic systems
Partner with our AI Safety and AI Security teams on the legal dimensions of technical mitigations, evaluations, red-teaming, and misuse prevention
Advise on dual-use and biosecurity considerations arising from autonomous chemistry and biology
Help operationalize Lila's safety framework as capabilities scale
Serve as a first-line contact for safety and security escalations, and build the playbooks that let that response scale
Track and translate the regulatory landscape that bears on our work
Support compute and infrastructure arrangements, including cloud and datacenter agreements, cross-border data transfers, and data localization
Represent Lila in regulatory inquiries, and contribute to industry and academic work on data governance and safety norms for AI-driven science
Design the frameworks, templates, and self-serve guidance that put legal judgment in the hands of the teams who need it, and use AI tools aggressively to extend the reach of a small team

Requirements

J.D. and membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing
7–12 years of legal experience, with substantial time in-house at a technology, AI, or life sciences company, ideally spanning both research-facing and product- or customer-facing counseling
Depth in at least two of: copyright and IP, data licensing and provenance, privacy and data protection, AI regulation, model launch and deployment counseling, or research and collaboration transactions
Genuine technical fluency: ability to discuss model training, evaluation, and deployment; read research protocols; and spot legal issues within technical designs
Sound judgment under uncertainty, and the ability to give clear, practical advice on questions where the law has not caught up
A strong sense of ownership and the instinct to build cross-functional relationships
Excellent written communication skills
Comfort operating outside areas of expertise, wearing many hats, and moving at startup speed without losing rigor

Skills

Copyright and IP
Data licensing and provenance
Privacy and data protection
AI regulation
Model launch and deployment counseling
Research and collaboration transactions
Technical fluency
Written communication

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

7-12 years

Education Level

J.D.

Salary/Compensations

$232,000—$360,000 USD

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Employer-paid life and disability insurance
Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
Paid parental leave
Educational assistance program
Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
Company subsidized lunch program
International benefits tailored to their region

About the Company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI.
Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance.

Equal Opportunity

Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.