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About the role
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux sells, delivers, and supports AI compute. Reporting to our General Counsel, you will own the customer contract framework (master services agreements, capacity reservation and order forms, service levels, and data protection and security terms) for hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and enterprises, along with the product, privacy, trade compliance, and partner terms that sit behind every deal. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of legal experience, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house experience negotiating complex commercial technology agreements (cloud, IaaS, colocation, SaaS, or hardware)
- Direct ownership of large, multi-year customer agreements with sophisticated counterparties, including SLAs, data protection, security, and liability allocation
- Experience building a commercial contracting framework, playbook, or deal desk process at a growing company
- In-house commercial experience at a hyperscaler or cloud provider (Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle) or a neocloud (CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius)
- Experience with export controls and sanctions for advanced chips, compute, or other controlled technology, including government or sovereign customers
- Privacy credentials (for example, CIPP/US or CIPP/E) or experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or government security commitments
More about this role
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
You will be the lead lawyer for how Crux sells, delivers, and supports AI compute. Reporting to our General Counsel, you will own the customer contract framework (master services agreements, capacity reservation and order forms, service levels, and data protection and security terms) for hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, and enterprises, along with the product, privacy, trade compliance, and partner terms that sit behind every deal. You will start as a hands-on practitioner and build a team of 1 to 3 counsel as deal volume grows. This is...
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