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Senior Counsel, Commercial & Product

Thinking Machines · San Francisco · On-site

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About Thinking Machines

Connectionism: Research Blog by Thinking Machines Lab. Backed by a16z, Accel and GV.

About the role

We’re looking for an attorney to lead the agreements that support our research and products, and support our compliance and counseling for those activities.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Preferred qualifications—we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these:
  • 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
More about this role

The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own, and crafting interfaces that broaden human-AI communication. We believe the future worth building is human, and we're hiring people who want to build it.

We’re looking for an attorney to lead the agreements that support our research and products, and support our compliance and counseling for those activities.

You’ll work directly with teams across research, engineering, product, go-to-market, security, safety, privacy, and product counseling to support agreements across a broad range of areas, including enterprise deals, data licensing and tech transactions, grants and research collaborations, product and safety partnerships, and open source considerations. Your work will shape how we partner with vendors, collaborators, and customers to develop and share our technology with the world. You’ll also support our counseling and compliance on our core AI research and products.

Advise research, engineering, product, and cross-functional partners on legal issues arising from agreements and partnerships...

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