Senior Legal Counsel (AI/Robotics)

Location: Boston (Somerville), United States; onsite

Company

hirify.global builds embodied foundation models focused on dexterity to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.

What you will do

• Serve as the first in-house legal hire with broad ownership across commercial, corporate, privacy, and technology matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate strategic partnerships, customer and vendor contracts, pilots, SOWs, NDAs, and other technology transactions.
• Support financings, fundraising, corporate governance, board and stockholder matters, diligence, and other corporate workstreams.
• Advise on training data, data-use rights, models and fine-tunes, intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, deployment, AI, and robotics issues.
• Provide practical legal recommendations, build templates, playbooks, policies, and processes, and manage external counsel.
• Track developments in AI, LLMs, robotics, privacy, intellectual property, regulation, market practices, and contractual precedent.

Requirements

• 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 recommendations, and drive matters to resolution without significant day-to-day supervision.
• Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law, with the ability to work across a broad range of legal issues.
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts, work effectively with engineering and research teams, and advise on technology, data, intellectual property, privacy, or related legal issues.
• Excellent commercial judgment and ability to provide clear, practical advice.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where applicable law, market norms, and contractual precedent may still be developing.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an interdisciplinary environment with researchers, roboticists, company builders, engineering teams, and company leadership.
• Operate in a fast-moving frontier technology environment focused on AI, robotics, data, models, and hardware.
• Full-time onsite role in Boston (Somerville).
• Equal opportunity employer committed to nondiscrimination on legally protected grounds.