# Legal Counsel at River AI

- Company: River AI
- What the company does: Develop frontier language models and agents. Training, reinforcement learning, and inference in one system, on River Cloud or your own GPU cluster. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://river.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $330K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/riverai/jobs/4470249009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/river-ai-legal-counsel/

## About the role

We are hiring for a Legal Counsel to be attorney #2 at River AI, an AI lab that is on a fast technological trajectory and that closed its first round of funding ($1.1 Billion) eight weeks after coming out of stealth. We are looking for a first-principles type of person who also loves to be an operator and to roll up their sleeves. Responsibilities will encompass commercial, product, corporate, employment, and all sorts of novel areas of law that come with frontier technologies. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in the California bar (or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California)
- 6+ years of combined experience at a top law firm and in-house at a high-growth technology company, with significant ownership of product, commercial, corporate or other legal subject matter expertise
- A first-principles thinker: comfortable being the first point of contact on unfamiliar legal questions, forming an informed view quickly, and knowing when to call in a specialist
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the judgment to give crisp, risk-calibrated, business-forward advice rather than memos
- Discretion and sound judgment handling sensitive matters and information, you build trust across the company
- Genuine enthusiasm for technology and AI, with fluency in modern software and AI tooling and a habit of using it to work faster and better

Tags: Legal

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/river-ai-legal-counsel/