Lila Sciences
Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel
$232K–$360K
Cambridge, MA USA +4 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
San Francisco, CA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 7–12 years of legal experience.
- Education
- J.D.
About the job
Provides legal counsel for Lila Sciences’ AI research, scientific platform, and supporting data, safety, and security functions, building frameworks for model development, release, and autonomous experimentation.
What you'll do
- Advise on training-data provenance and use, licensing, research collaborations, and allocation of rights in data, models, and outputs.
- Guide model and platform launches, publication and disclosure, and safety, security, dual-use, and regulatory matters.
- Build scalable legal frameworks and guidance, and partner with technical and business teams on emerging legal risks.
What they ask for
- J.D. and membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
- Substantial in-house experience at a technology, AI, or life sciences company, ideally across research-facing and product- or customer-facing counseling.
- Depth in at least two listed areas: copyright and IP; data licensing and provenance; privacy and data protection; AI regulation; model launch and deployment counseling; or research and collaboration transactions.
- Technical fluency with model training, evaluation, and deployment, plus sound judgment and excellent written communication.
Nice to have
- STEM background or advanced degree, particularly in biology, chemistry, materials, or computer science.
- Experience advising AI research teams on training data, model development, or model release decisions.
Pay
$232,000 — $360,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI tools, EU AI Act, US state AI laws
AI focus
Legal counsel for frontier AI models and AI-driven science, including training-data use, autonomous experimentation, model release, safety evaluations, and misuse prevention.
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