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Commercial Counsel

SandboxAQ· Legal
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Remote$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Commercial Counsel to own and negotiate a broad range of contracts with a focus on life sciences and computational chemistry, build scalable legal processes, and partner closely with science and business teams in a fast-growing, remote-friendly environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer deals (with a focus on life sciences and computational chemistry deals) end to end. Structure, draft, and negotiate customer engagements (bespoke and standard), including in the material science and drug-discovery spaces, research collaborations, sponsored research agreements, industry partnerships, commercial pilots, data in-licenses, etc. Work closely with the sales and business teams.
  • Own and build out capabilities for broader contract work. Negotiate customer agreements and statements of work across our business units, channel and technology partnerships, NDAs, and vendor, SaaS, and professional services agreements.
  • Be a trusted partner to the science and business teams. Work directly with PhD chemists, biologists, and ML researchers, alongside general managers, finance, and R&D leadership seamlessly and collaboratively, proactively identifying key issues and leading the broader group through the problem solving process.
  • Build for scale. Create and maintain playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and escalation paths; stand up self-serve routes for routine agreements; and use AI tooling to accelerate review, triage, and drafting so the team's leverage grows faster than its headcount.

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree, with admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 6+ years of substantive commercial transactional experience, with a demonstrated record of independently owning and closing complex technology or science-driven deals.
  • Deep fluency in a broad spectrum of business and commercial engagement and transaction structures, IP ownership and license scope, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, and termination, among other things.
  • Strategic and agile, with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments. Strong desire to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Collaborative and high EQ, with the ability to build relationships across diverse teams (from sales teams to technical teams) and translate complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies.

Skills

Required:Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degreeCommercial transactional experienceContract drafting and negotiationIP ownership and licensingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:AI/ML tooling for legal work

Benefits

  • Career Defining Work: accelerates drug/material discovery and AI-enabled technical applications.
  • Compensation: competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.
  • Benefits: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, inclusive family-building benefits.
  • Work-Life Balance: fully remote, flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements.
  • Learning and Growth: opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal programs.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About SandboxAQ

Transforming the World with AI and Advanced Computing

SandboxAQ leverages the compound effects of AI and advanced computing to address some of the biggest challenges impacting society. SandboxAQ technologies include AI simulation, cryptography management for cybersecurity, and AI sensing for global organizations.

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