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Senior Legal Counsel

Generalist AI· Operations
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San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior in-house lawyer overseeing commercial, corporate, privacy, and technology matters; builds the legal function as Generalist scales, advising on AI/tech regulatory and strategic initiatives while managing external counsel.

Responsibilities

  • Commercial & strategic transactions: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, customer and vendor contracts, pilots, SOWs, NDAs, and other technology transactions; support complex negotiations with Partnerships and company leadership.
  • Corporate & fundraising: Support financings, fundraising, corporate governance, board and stockholder matters, diligence, and other corporate workstreams, coordinating with external counsel as needed.
  • AI, data & technology: Advise on legal issues related to Generalist’s technology, including training data, data-use rights, models and fine-tunes, intellectual property, confidentiality and privacy, deployment, and other emerging AI and robotics issues.
  • Legal advice & risk management: Serve as a practical legal advisor across the company, translating legal risk into clear recommendations that help teams move quickly and make sound decisions.
  • Legal infrastructure & external counsel: Build scalable templates, playbooks, policies, and processes, and manage outside counsel where specialized support is needed.
  • Emerging legal landscape: Stay current on developments in AI, LLMs, robotics, privacy, intellectual property, regulation, market practices, and contractual precedent, and take on new legal issues as they arise.

Qualifications

  • 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 a recommendation, and drive matters to resolution without requiring significant day-to-day supervision.
  • Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law, with the ability to work across a broad range of legal issues rather than specializing narrowly in a single area.
  • 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 an ability to give clear, practical advice rather than simply identifying legal risks.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where the applicable law, market norms, and contractual precedent may still be developing.

Skills

Required:Commercial law and contract negotiationCorporate governance and funding
Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.

Generalist AI: a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.

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