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Hyperbolic Labs is building an Open-Access AI Cloud that democratizes access to computing power through an innovative GPU marketplace and AI inference service. The company is seeking a high-impact, commercially minded in-house legal counsel to help establish the legal and commercial foundation of its AI infrastructure business.
You will work directly with the founders and leadership team on the company's most important transactions, owning agreements through which Hyperbolic secures GPU capacity, brings strategic partners onto its platform, and serves customers. A central part of your mandate will be aligning Master Service Agreements (MSAs) with neocloud providers and customers to deliver consistently high quality of service while protecting the company from legal, operational, and financial risk.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs with neoclouds and customers, matching terms across capacity, pricing, timeline, performance, service levels, security, liability, and termination
- Designing innovative commercial agreements, including creative deal structures with neoclouds, channel partners, market makers, vendors, and technology providers
- Partnering with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations to ensure contractual commitments are technically achievable and financially supportable
- Navigating an evolving regulatory and compliance landscape, including AI sales restrictions, potential CFTC oversight, SOC 2 & GDPR requirements, and financial-services and data-privacy laws across jurisdictions
- Leading the company's response to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries, providing clear and decisive counsel under pressure
- Advising on corporate governance, fundraising, debt and equity financings, intellectual property protection, and other strategic corporate matters
- Building contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval processes, and systems for tracking contractual obligations and risk
- Managing outside counsel and the legal budget
Requirements:
- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including commercial technology transactions and meaningful in-house experience
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise customer MSAs
- Strong understanding of committed capacity, usage-based pricing, SLAs, security obligations, indemnities, liability caps, and termination economics
- Ability to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations
- Commercial, collaborative mindset and comfort making sound decisions in a fast-moving environment
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience at a neocloud, GPU cloud, public-cloud provider, data-center operator, high-performance computing company, or infrastructure marketplace
- Experience with channel, reseller, marketplace, referral, capacity-sharing, or other non-standard commercial arrangements
- Experience supporting an early-stage company across commercial, corporate, regulatory, and product matters
