Legal Intern – Technology & AI
About The Position
Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one. Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters. At SF Compute, our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders. If we succeed, buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread. Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What Brent is for oil, we will be for compute. We’re seeking a motivated law student (2L or 3L preferred) with a demonstrated interest in technology, artificial intelligence, and business. You’ll work directly with our General Counsel to design and implement legal systems that support rapid deal execution, risk management, and scalable operations at a high-growth AI infrastructure startup.
Requirements
- Current J.D. student (2L or 3L preferred).
- Demonstrated interest in technology and AI.
- Strong writing, research, and communication skills.
- Analytical, proactive, and detail-oriented mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Engineering or business background is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Assist in creating legal processes to accelerate the deal cycle and improve execution speed.
- Develop playbooks and fallback provisions to streamline negotiations and standardize contract positions.
- Build and maintain contract templates and clause databases to ensure consistency and efficiency.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, business, and finance to align legal operations and manage risk.
- Research emerging legal issues in AI, cloud infrastructure, data use, and intellectual property.
- Collaborate on contract drafting, preparation, and review (vendor, NDAs, licensing).
- Support risk-management and dispute-readiness initiatives, including documentation and coordination with outside counsel.
Benefits
- Generous equity grant
- Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
- Visa Sponsorships
- Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits
- Retirement matching
- We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
- Medical, dental & vision
- We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
- Time off
- We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
- Parental leave
- We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
- Daily lunch
- We cover lunch daily for employees
- Unlimited office book budget
- You can buy as many books for the office as you want
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
