Senior Counsel, Commercial & Product

Thinking Machines Lab•San Francisco, CA

6d•$300,000 - $360,000•Onsite

About The Position

Thinking Machines is seeking an attorney to lead agreements supporting their research and products, and to provide compliance and counseling for those activities. The role involves working directly with various teams including research, engineering, product, go-to-market, security, safety, privacy, and product counseling. The attorney will support agreements in areas such as enterprise deals, data licensing, tech transactions, grants, research collaborations, product and safety partnerships, and open source considerations. This position will shape how the company partners with vendors, collaborators, and customers to develop and share its technology, and will also support counseling and compliance related to core AI research and products.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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, outside counsel relationships–to support deal velocity, efficiency, and quality.
Support compliance and counseling on research, product, and partnership pipelines, operations, initiatives and launches.