Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel

The role

You will be the legal partner to teams building Scientific Superintelligence, including AI research and the AI Science Factory platform. You will own legal questions regarding training frontier models on scientific data, rights allocation, and responsible system release.

What you will do

• Advise research and data teams on permissible data usage and provenance frameworks
• Serve as a subject matter expert on copyright, licensing, privacy, and contractual restrictions for training data
• Support structuring and negotiation of data licensing, material transfer, and research collaboration agreements
• Advise on release decisions for models, agents, tools, and datasets
• Coordinate legal readiness for model and platform launches
• Support publication and disclosure review
• Counsel research teams on research design, data collection, and external collaborations
• Counsel platform teams on legal considerations for autonomous experimentation and agentic systems
• Partner with AI Safety and AI Security teams on technical mitigations and misuse prevention
• Advise on dual-use and biosecurity considerations

Required qualifications

• J.D. and membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing
• 7–12 years of legal experience
• Substantial time in-house at a technology, AI, or life sciences company
• Depth in at least two of: copyright and IP, data licensing and provenance, privacy and data protection, AI regulation, model launch and deployment counseling, or research and collaboration transaction
• Technical fluency in model training, evaluation, and deployment
• Sound judgment under uncertainty
• Excellent written communication

Nice to have

• STEM background or advanced degree, particularly in biology, chemistry, materials, or computer science
• Experience advising AI research teams on training data, model development, or model release decisions
• Experience advising on enterprise or API product deployment
• Experience coordinating model launches, or drafting model documentation, system cards, or capability evaluation write-ups
• Experience with AI-generated invention and inventorship questions, or patent strategy in an AI-driven discovery setting
• Familiarity with dual-use, biosecurity, export control, or CFIUS considerations
• Experience supporting academic collaborations, consortium agreements, or federally funded research
• An academic or publishing background, or depth in open-source and data licensing
• Experience engaging directly with regulators or standards bodies
• Experience building legal infrastructure and scalable processes from scratch

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.