Hyperbolic
Corporate Counsel
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Legal
- Posted
Skills
Full description
- Hyperbolic is seeking a high-impact, commercially minded in-house legal counsel to help shape the legal and commercial foundation of our AI infrastructure business
- This is a highly visible role working directly with our founders and leadership team on some of the company’s most important transactions
- You will own the agreements through which Hyperbolic secures GPU capacity, brings strategic partners onto its platform, and serves its customers
- A central part of your mandate will be aligning MSAs with neocloud providers and customers to deliver a consistently high quality of service while protecting Hyperbolic from legal, operational, and financial risk
- Your work will directly influence how we scale, enter new markets, and build durable relationships across the AI infrastructure ecosystem
- Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs with neoclouds and customers, matching terms across capacity, pricing, timeline, performance, service levels, security, liability, and termination
- Design a wide range of innovative commercial agreements, including creative deal structures with neoclouds, channel partners, market makers, vendors, and technology providers
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations to ensure contractual commitments are technically achievable and financially supportable
- Navigate 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
- Lead the company’s response to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries, providing clear and decisive counsel under pressure
- Advise on corporate governance, fundraising, debt and equity financings, intellectual property protection, and other strategic corporate matters
- Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval processes, and systems for tracking contractual obligations and risk
- Manage outside counsel and the legal budget
- 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
- Able to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations
- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar
- Commercial, collaborative, and comfortable making sound decisions in a fast-moving environment
- Strong understanding of committed capacity, usage-based pricing, SLAs, security obligations, indemnities, liability caps, and termination economics
- 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