Senior Counsel, AI Infrastructure
San Francisco, United States · Full-time
- Posted 1w ago
- From Fal.ai’s careers page
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Legal and Compliance
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About the role
What you'll do
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Own hardware purchase and supply agreements for GPUs, servers, racks, networking and related equipment, including warranties, delivery, allocation of risk, and vendor financing terms.
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Lead negotiation of GPU capacity agreements with neoclouds, hyperscalers and traditional cloud providers, including commitment structures, pricing, SLAs and associated credits, delivery timelines, and liability caps.
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Support GPU-side referral, reseller and partnership agreements, and partner with our commercial counsel on sell-side compute terms.
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Work day to day with capacity planning, sourcing, site acquisition and finance, so legal moves at the speed of the build-out.
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Bring outside counsel work in-house. Where we still use firms, manage them tightly on cost and turnaround.
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Build templates, negotiation playbooks and fallback positions for infrastructure agreements, and help shape how these deals are approved and tracked.
What you bring
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5+ years of commercial legal experience, with meaningful time in-house or at a firm serving infrastructure clients.
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Recent, hands-on experience negotiating compute infrastructure deals: GPU or cloud capacity, data center or colocation, and hardware procurement. That experience might come from a hyperscaler, neocloud, AI lab, semiconductor or data center company.
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Fluency in the terms that matter here: capacity commitments, take-or-pay and minimum spend, SLAs and credits, power and real estate provisions, supply and delivery risk, and limitation of liability.
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Comfort running several high-value, time-sensitive negotiations at once with little process around you.
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Sound business judgment. You frame risk as "yes, and here's the exposure" and help the business make the call.
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Active bar membership in good standing (California preferred or able to register as in-house counsel).
Nice to have
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Real estate, energy or power procurement experience.
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Exposure to export controls, trade compliance or international supply chains.
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Experience building a function or playbooks from scratch at a high-growth company.
Why this role
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You'll own one of the most strategic legal areas at a fast-growing AI company, working directly with company leadership.
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Your work will shape where and how we build.
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Meaningful equity in a company growing quickly.
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About Fal.ai
Generative media models for developersfal provides developers with access to generative image, video, and audio models, plus GPU infrastructure for model development.
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