Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USA; office-based role.

Expected base salary: $232,000–$360,000 USD annually, plus bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

hirify.global builds Scientific Superintelligence™ by combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments to autonomously execute the scientific method across medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Advise research and data teams on training-data provenance, permissible use, copyright, licensing, privacy, and contractual restrictions.
• Structure and negotiate data licensing, material transfer, consortium, and research collaboration agreements, including allocation of rights in data, models, and derived outputs.
• Advise on model, agent, tool, dataset, code, and platform releases; coordinate launch readiness, system cards, capability evaluations, publication review, and open-source licensing.
• Partner with AI safety and security teams on evaluations, red-teaming, misuse prevention, dual-use and biosecurity controls, access restrictions, and disclosure.
• Track AI, health-data, human-subject, biospecimen, export-control, and data-localization requirements; support cloud, datacenter, and cross-border data arrangements.
• Build scalable legal frameworks, templates, playbooks, and self-service guidance for cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• J.D. and membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• 7–12 years of legal experience, including substantial in-house experience at a technology, AI, or life sciences company and ideally both research-facing and product- or customer-facing counseling.
• 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 transactions.
• Technical fluency in model training, evaluation, deployment, and research protocols, with the ability to identify legal issues in technical designs.
• Sound judgment under uncertainty and the ability to provide clear, practical advice where legal precedent is unsettled.
• Strong ownership, cross-functional relationship-building, written communication, and policy or framework drafting skills.
• Comfort working outside established expertise and operating at startup speed without losing rigor.

Nice to have

• STEM background or advanced degree in biology, chemistry, materials, or computer science.
• Experience with AI research teams, training data, model development or release, enterprise/API deployment, agentic features, model documentation, system cards, or capability evaluations.
• Experience with AI-generated inventions, inventorship, patent strategy, dual-use, biosecurity, export controls, CFIUS, academic collaborations, consortium agreements, or federally funded research.
• Academic or publishing experience, open-source and data licensing expertise, regulator or standards-body engagement, or legal infrastructure built from scratch.
• Experience using AI and data-driven tools to transform legal practice.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance.
• Flexible time off, generous company-wide holidays, paid parental leave, educational assistance, and commuter benefits.
• Office-based employees may receive bike-share memberships and access to a company-subsidized lunch program.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive regionally tailored benefits; USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions.
• Startup-speed environment focused on truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted from candidates; unsolicited agency resumes are not accepted unless the agency is contacted directly by hirify.global' internal Talent Acquisition team.