Generalist
Senior Legal Counsel
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 6–10+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience at a technology company, technology-focused law firm, or both.
- Education
- JD
About the job
Serves as Generalist’s first in-house lawyer, handling broad commercial, corporate, privacy, and technology matters while building the legal function and advising on AI and robotics issues.
What you'll do
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements and support strategic transactions and partnerships.
- Advise on corporate matters, financings, governance, and legal issues involving AI, data, intellectual property, and privacy.
- Build legal templates, policies, and processes; advise teams on risk and manage external counsel.
What they ask for
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial technology agreements.
- Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law, with the ability to work independently across legal matters.
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and advise on technology, data, intellectual property, privacy, or related legal issues.
Nice to have
- In-house experience at an AI, machine learning, robotics, software, or other frontier technology company, especially a growth-stage startup.
- Experience with complex commercial deals, strategic transactions, financings, acquisitions, investments, or agreements involving AI models and training data.
Tools
AI, LLMs, machine learning, robotics
AI focus
Advise on legal issues involving AI and robotics technology, including training data, data-use rights, models and fine-tunes, intellectual property, privacy, and deployment.
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