Senior Counsel

Goodfire is a San Francisco AI interpretability research company building Silico, an agent and infrastructure for understanding, debugging, monitoring, and controlling AI models.

San Francisco, United States
About Goodfire

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation and AI interpretability research lab. Its current product, Silico, turns research questions into inspectable experiments and reports, supporting model analysis, debugging, guardrails, and interpretability research.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will serve as the first in-house lawyer and handle contract negotiations, employment agreements, fundraising, and board matters. You will define approaches to AI security and interpretability contracts and regulations, and advise on licensing, data rights, and liability.

Requirements

  • JD and active membership in at least one US state bar.
  • 6+ years across law-firm and in-house technology-company roles, including enterprise software deals.
  • Experience with AI/SaaS licensing, data rights, liability, and forward deployed contracts.
  • Strong understanding of AI security and interpretability.
  • Experience building a legal function from scratch.
  • AI lab or AI/ML product experience, including model licensing, training-data rights, or open-source releases.
  • Experience with healthcare or life sciences customers and related regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Build the legal foundation.
  • Handle contract negotiations, employment agreements, fundraising, and board matters.
  • Define approaches to interpretability and AI security contracts and regulations.
  • Advise on licensing, data rights, liability, and forward deployed contracts.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits
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