# General Counsel

**Company:** [AE Studio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ae-studio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $225k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Commercial Transactions, Technology Law, Ai Law, Intellectual Property, Government Contracting, Grants, Nonprofit Law, Corporate Governance, Contract Negotiation
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> First in-house General Counsel for a fast-growing applied AI and AI alignment company. Shape commercial deals, research grants, government/university partnerships, IP strategy, and all in-house legal functions. Requires JD, CA bar, strength in commercial transactions and tech/AI, plus strong business judgment.

## Job Description

## What you'll work on

- Shape deal terms for outcome-based and productized commercial work, taking on more delivery ownership.
- Help secure and implement major research grants for foundational AI alignment work.
- Structure first-of-their-kind partnerships and collaborations with government agencies, research labs, and universities.
- Expand government contracting and programs, navigating new categories with significant upside.
- Manage intellectual property: ownership, licensing, protection, and publication strategies.
- Handle steady in-house workstreams including NDAs, vendor agreements, employment matters, corporate governance, and scaling legal processes.

## About you / Requirements

- JD from an accredited law school with active, good-standing membership in the California bar (open to exceptional out-of-state candidates).
- Real strength in commercial transactions and technology/AI work.
- Ideal: experience across IP, nonprofit, grants, and government contracting (growing into areas is acceptable).
- Substantial in-house experience and/or strong firm training to exercise real judgment; we weigh judgment, adaptability, and business instinct heavily.
- Technical background or deep experience with technology and technical people; comfortable around AI and engineers.
- AI-native: uses latest AI tools in legal practice with care for confidentiality, accuracy, and privilege.
- Strong business sense, negotiation skills, ability to translate between business and legal, no-job-too-small mindset, organizational/process skills, creativity, partnership with outside counsel.
- Complete integrity, discretion, comfort in fast, ambiguous, high-ownership environment.
- Alignment with fast-moving, high-variance, outcome-oriented culture.

## Compensation & Benefits

Good-faith base salary range (full-time): $225,000 - $300,000, plus variable compensation and equity participation. Fractional/consulting start: mutually agreed rate or retainer.

Remote-first with flexible schedules, health insurance, free lunches at the office (when present), weekly knowledge-sharing talks, annual team retreat, performance-based raises, and diversified employee equity program.

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