Legal Counsel (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global develops an open-access AI cloud with a GPU marketplace and AI inference services that use distributed computing resources.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs with neocloud providers and customers, covering capacity, pricing, performance, service levels, security, liability, and termination.
• Design commercial agreements with neoclouds, channel partners, market makers, vendors, and technology providers.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations to ensure contractual commitments are technically achievable and financially supportable.
• Advise on AI sales restrictions, potential CFTC oversight, SOC 2, GDPR, financial-services regulation, and data-privacy laws across jurisdictions.
• Lead responses to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries, and advise on governance, fundraising, financings, intellectual property, and strategic corporate matters.
• Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval processes, obligation-tracking systems, and manage outside counsel and the legal budget.

Requirements

• J.D. and 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.
• Ability to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations.
• Commercial, collaborative, and comfortable making sound decisions in a fast-moving environment.

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.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with founders and the leadership team on high-impact transactions.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations.
• Contribute to an inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and diversity.