Hyperbolic
Corporate Counsel
San Francisco, CA. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will draft, review, and negotiate MSAs and innovative commercial agreements for an AI infrastructure business. They will work with founders and leadership to manage legal, operational, and financial risk while partnering with internal teams.
What you will do
- Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs with neoclouds and customers.
- Design innovative commercial agreements with various partners and providers.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations.
- Navigate regulatory and compliance landscapes including AI sales restrictions and data-privacy laws.
- Lead the company's response to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries.
- Advise on corporate governance, fundraising, and intellectual property protection.
- Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and approval processes.
- Manage outside counsel and the legal budget.
Required qualifications
- J.D.
- Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including commercial technology transactions and meaningful in-house experience.
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise customer MSAs.
- Strong understanding of committed capacity, usage-based pricing, SLAs, security obligations, indemnities, liability caps, and termination economics.
- Able to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations.
Nice to have
- Experience at a neocloud, GPU cloud, public-cloud provider, data-center operator, high-performance computing company, or infrastructure marketplace.
- Experience with channel, reseller, marketplace, referral, capacity-sharing, or other non-standard commercial arrangements.
- Experience supporting an early-stage company across commercial, corporate, regulatory, and product matters.
About the company
Hyperbolic is making global AI compute liquid by bringing fragmented, heterogeneous GPU capacity together into one unified platform. They build toward a future where compute flows as freely as electricity.