Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory

Liquid AI•Boston, MA

About The Position

Liquid AI is hiring an Associate General Counsel to lead product counseling and AI regulatory work. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, this role works directly with researchers, engineers, and product teams throughout model development, release, fine-tuning, and customer deployment. The Associate General Counsel advises on data use, safeguards, model releases, and customer commitments, translating legal questions into practical product decisions and following those decisions through implementation. The role leads Liquid AI’s response to the EU AI Act and other emerging AI laws; advises on training and evaluation data, privacy, intellectual property, and model outputs; guides open-source and open-weight release decisions; and partners with commercial teams on strategic customer and partnership agreements. Success includes enabling teams to identify legal questions early, implementing relevant regulatory controls and documentation, and ensuring customer commitments reflect how Liquid’s models can be delivered and used.

Requirements

At least eight years of relevant legal experience.
Substantial in-house experience advising technology product teams.
Depth in one or more of AI regulation, privacy, data governance, intellectual property, or a related area of technology law.
A track record of turning complex legal questions into concrete product decisions, including explaining relevant technical facts, recommendations, and outcomes.
Clear, concise writing that gives technical and business readers enough context to act.
Ability to work closely with technical teams, make reasoned recommendations when law is unsettled, and identify when to involve the Chief Legal Officer.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience counseling teams that train, fine-tune, or release foundation models.
Experience implementing AI regulatory requirements or advising on open-weight licensing and downstream use.

Responsibilities

Own legal support for Liquid’s models and products from development through release, fine-tuning, and customer deployment.
Lead Liquid’s response to the EU AI Act and other emerging AI laws, determine applicable requirements, and work with technical teams to implement necessary controls, documentation, and product changes.
Advise research teams on the collection and use of training and evaluation data, including synthetic data, and on privacy and intellectual property questions involving datasets and model outputs.
Guide open-source and open-weight release decisions, including licensing, model safety, security, and claims about model capabilities.
Partner with the commercial team on strategic customer and partnership agreements so product and regulatory commitments reflect how models will be delivered and used.
Work with product owners to implement legal recommendations and revisit advice when the facts change.
Help research, product, and engineering teams identify legal questions early and understand accepted risks and safeguards before release.
Enable commercial teams to address recurring customer questions about data use, model capabilities, and deployment, and ensure signed commitments match what Liquid can deliver.