The San Francisco Compute Company manufactures supercomputers. Backed by Electric Capital.
About the role
SF Compute is looking for a Commercial Counsel to help build and scale our commercial legal function as we grow our AI infrastructure business. This role will partner closely with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Operations, Engineering, and leadership teams to structure, negotiate, and execute high-impact commercial agreements that enable the business to move quickly while managing risk. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
- 3-5+ years of legal experience, including experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal team
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of complex commercial technology agreements
- Experience supporting technology companies, cloud infrastructure, AI, data centers, SaaS, hardware, or other technical businesses strongly preferred
- Ability to understand complex technical products and translate business objectives into practical legal solutions
- Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities
More about this role
San Francisco Compute exists to give ambitious teams large scale supercomputers without taking on a catastrophic balance sheet risk. Most GPU clouds force you to sign long term contracts with no way out. If you underbuy, you miss the window. If you overbuy, you’ll blow up with no way out. It’s a desperate gamble that San Francisco Compute does not force you to play.
Originally, SFC was an AI lab that bought too big of a GPU cluster and was forced to sublease it or go under. Today, we build data centers and supercomputers, then lease those machines on contracts that let our customers sublease. More than anyone else in the industry, we deeply felt the pain and fear of being forced to bet the farm with your neocloud vendor. To enable subleasing, we invented the first compute market and became the first to offer physical settlement. That means we operate GPU clusters like a neocloud and derisk our customers like a market.
Customers buying GPU clusters don’t want to work through a network of brokers. They want to transact with the folks that have the keys to the cluster and can own the SLA.
To keep the industry safe from unnecessary risk, SFC needs to scale fast. To do that, we serve...
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