About the job
Reflection AI builds open weight models for a wide range of users, including individuals, businesses, and governments. The team brings together talent from organizations such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta, Character. AI, and Anthropic, all working to advance open superintelligence.
Role overview
The AI Compute and Infrastructure Counsel acts as the main legal advisor to Reflection AI’s Strategy and Operations teams on complex infrastructure initiatives. Based in San Francisco, this attorney leads negotiations and manages agreements that support the company’s growing AI infrastructure. The work spans collaborations with hardware manufacturers, cloud capacity deals, and contracts related to data centers, utilities, and new facility builds.
This position is designed for a commercial lawyer with experience at the intersection of advanced AI and infrastructure. The role provides autonomy, the opportunity to establish legal frameworks for a new function, and a direct impact on the company’s AI systems.
What you will do
- Negotiate compute and cloud capacity agreements with hyperscalers, neoclouds, and new vendors, covering terms like capacity reservations, service-level commitments, portability, and exit rights.
- Manage hardware partnerships with vendors in chips, accelerators, servers, and networking.
- Oversee legal support for data center and AI facility projects, including master agreements for colocation and hosting, ground leases, build-to-suit leases, construction contracts, interconnection agreements, and power purchase agreements.
- Structure and negotiate power arrangements, such as power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, utility service contracts, behind-the-meter generation, and long-term energy deals.
- Lead legal work on strategic infrastructure transactions, including joint ventures, site acquisitions, and custom financing models for the AI factory roadmap.
- Develop scalable playbooks, templates, and delegation systems to help commercial and infrastructure teams operate efficiently and maintain high standards.
- Collaborate with Security, Privacy, and Policy teams on matters like tenant isolation, customer data handling, and sovereign compute requirements.
