Senior Legal Counsel

The role

The Senior Legal Counsel will take broad ownership across commercial, corporate, privacy, and technology matters. This person will help build the legal function and work closely with company leadership and applied AI and partnerships.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including strategic partnerships, customer and vendor contracts, pilots, SOWs, and NDAs.
• Support financings, fundraising, corporate governance, board and stockholder matters, and diligence.
• Advise on legal issues related to technology including training data, data-use rights, models, fine-tunes, intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, and deployment.
• Serve as a practical legal advisor translating legal risk into clear recommendations.
• Build scalable templates, playbooks, policies, and processes.
• Manage outside counsel where specialized support is needed.
• Stay current on developments in AI, LLMs, robotics, privacy, intellectual property, regulation, market practices, and contractual precedent.

Required qualifications

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 6–10+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience at a technology company, technology-focused law firm, or both.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial technology agreements.
• Ability to independently identify legal issues, assess risk, develop a recommendation, and drive matters to resolution without significant day-to-day supervision.
• Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law.
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and work effectively with engineering and research teams.
• Ability to advise on technology, data, intellectual property, privacy, or related legal issues.
• Excellent commercial judgment and ability to give clear, practical advice.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where law, market norms, and contractual precedent may still be developing.

Nice to have

• Experience working in-house at an AI, machine learning, robotics, software, or other frontier technology company, especially growth-stage startups.
• Significant experience leading or supporting complex commercial deals, strategic transactions, financings, acquisitions, and investments.
• Experience negotiating agreements involving AI models, training data, data licensing, model outputs, fine-tuning, or other emerging technology issues.
• Familiarity with current commercial and legal practices in generative AI and LLM-related transactions.

About the company

Generalist is on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world. The company builds embodied foundation models with a focus on dexterity.