Legal Counsel
Somnia is a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain ('the Agentic L1') built for reactive, AI-driven onchain applications. It offers extremely high throughput (1M TPS), sub-cent fees, and lets smart contracts natively query APIs, run deterministic AI models, and react to onchain events in real time.
Projects
About Somnia
Somnia is a blockchain network positioned as an 'Agentic L1', designed with a multi-stream consensus mechanism to deliver the highest throughput and lowest latency of any EVM-compatible chain. Its IceDB database enables predictable, sub-cent gas pricing at scale. The chain's architecture and Solidity extensions allow developers to build reactive applications where smart contracts can listen and automatically execute when onchain data or events change. A key feature, Somnia Agents, lets smart contracts natively query external APIs, run deterministic AI models, and scrape websites, all validated onchain—enabling use cases such as AI-resolved prediction markets and hyper-performance DeFi with full onchain order books and matching engines. Somnia serves developers and projects building consumer, DeFi, and agentic applications, and is expanding its ecosystem through integrations like LI.FI for crosschain liquidity and events like the Somnia Agentathon.
Skills
About the Role
You will work directly alongside the Legal Director across the full breadth of the network's legal work in this broad hands-on role. You will own day-to-day legal matters, negotiate commercial agreements and NDAs, and act as a first point of contact for legal questions from across the business. You'll report directly to the Legal Director and receive continuous support from a senior lawyer, giving you an unusually fast way to grow. Since the company operates at the intersection of blockchain, DeFi, and AI across a multi-entity, international structure, your work will be varied and no two weeks will look the same.
Requirements
- A law degree and the possibility to work core hours in the CET timezone (Europe preferred)
- One to three years of relevant legal experience, ideally gained at a law firm or in-house
- A genuine interest in both crypto and AI
- The ability to run matters independently while knowing when to escalate
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills, and clear written English
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, high-volume environment
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, vendor and SaaS contracts, NDAs, and related documentation
- Handle day-to-day legal questions from teams across the business and give practical, commercially grounded answers
- Support product and corporate legal work across the company's entities and jurisdictions
- Track developments in crypto and digital-asset regulation and turn them into actionable guidance
- Maintain and improve internal templates, playbooks, and contract-tracking processes
- Coordinate with external counsel where specialist input is needed
Benefits
- Remote work
- Competitive salary + tokens