Regulatory Legal Counsel
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will advise on digital, platform, and AI regulation across EMEA. You will assess products and features against regulatory requirements, support regulatory engagements and investigations, track legal developments, build compliance processes, manage outside counsel, and partner with product, engineering, safety, policy, and legal stakeholders.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in good standing, ideally in the UK and/or EU
- Ideally 5+ years of legal experience in technology, platform, or digital regulation
- Strong working knowledge of the Digital Services Act and/or UK Online Safety Act
- Understanding of the legislative process and technology industry
- Ability to explain complex ideas clearly
- Ability to work with technical and non-legal teams and understand products
- Commitment to work in-office 5 days per week
Responsibilities
- Advise on implementation and compliance with EU, UK, and EMEA digital regulations
- Support regulatory engagement and investigations with regulators
- Assess product features and AI products against regulatory requirements
- Conduct systemic risk and illegal-content risk assessments
- Advise on age assurance, protection of minors, content moderation, user reporting, advertising transparency, researcher data access, and AI transparency
- Track legislation, codes of practice, guidelines, and enforcement trends
- Build scalable compliance and product-review processes, templates, and playbooks
- Partner with compliance, product counsel, privacy, litigation, and policy colleagues
- Manage outside counsel
- Use AI products to accelerate learning and productivity