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SandboxAQ is a high-growth AI company delivering Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022.
The Commercial Counsel will own the company's commercial contracts end-to-end, with a particular focus on life sciences and computational chemistry deals. This is an early legal hire opportunity to help build a forward-thinking, business-savvy legal team from the ground up.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning customer deals across the commercial spectrum: customer agreements, research collaborations, partnerships, data licensing arrangements, and vendor/software contracts
- Structuring, drafting, and negotiating customer engagements in material science and drug-discovery spaces, sponsored research agreements, industry partnerships, commercial pilots, and data in-licenses
- Working closely with sales, business, science, and R&D teams to identify key issues and lead problem-solving
- Building scalable legal infrastructure: creating playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and self-serve routes for routine agreements
- Leveraging AI tooling to accelerate contract review, triage, and drafting
The role requires deep fluency in commercial transaction structures, IP ownership and licensing, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, and termination clauses. You will be a trusted partner to PhD chemists, biologists, ML researchers, general managers, finance, and R&D leadership.
The company offers fully remote work, flexible paid time off, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage, retirement matching, paid parental leave, and access to learning and development programs.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 demonstrated record of independently owning and closing complex technology or science-driven deals
- Deep fluency in business and commercial engagement structures, IP ownership and licensing, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, and termination
- Strategic and agile mindset; ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments with strong desire to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up
- Collaborative with high emotional intelligence; ability to build relationships across diverse teams and translate complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies
HIGHLY DESIRED:
- Life sciences and/or material science transactional depth (pharma, biotech, medical device collaborations, drug-discovery partnerships, computational chemistry or AI-driven discovery arrangements, university and technology transfer agreements)
- Combination of in-house and Big Law experience
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in STEM field (chemistry, biochemistry, biology, computer science, physics, or similar)
- Experience with AI/ML products and contractual questions
- Exposure to data licensing, data-sharing, and privacy requirements across multiple jurisdictions
- Demonstrated use of or specific interest in AI tooling to accelerate legal work
