Baseten

Technology

AssistantGeneralCounsel,Infrastructure&Compute

$225–275k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Assistant General Counsel, Infrastructure & Compute at Baseten. Skills: Compute contracting, Infrastructure contracting, Supply chain legal. Own and lead negotiations for GPU compute. Lead negotiations for cloud capacity”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

JD and active bar membership, 8+ years technology transactions experience, Meaningful buy-side exposure, Fluency in availability and SLA constructs, Capacity and route diversity knowledge, Compute, colo, power, network terms interaction knowledge, Experience with high-volume vendor contracting, Judgment about vendor terms risk, Direct outside counsel, Commercially grounded communicator, Translate infrastructure concepts into risk calls, Partner deeply with Engineering, Infra, Finance, Ability to learn AI tooling, Self-serve and operate at breakneck speed

Nice to Have

In-house experience at cloud provider, In-house experience at neocloud, In-house experience at hyperscaler, In-house experience at datacenter operator, In-house experience at hardware company, Direct experience with GPU supply agreements, Direct experience with bare-metal procurement, Direct experience with large compute commitments, Experience with hyperscaler strategic agreements, Familiarity with M&A integration, Experience at AI company, Experience at ML company, Experience at developer-infrastructure company

What You'll Do.

Own and lead negotiations for GPU compute

Lead negotiations for cloud capacity

Lead negotiations for infrastructure-services agreements

Build flexibility in agreements

Build exit optionality in agreements

Build enforceable SLAs in agreements

Lead colocation contracting

Lead power contracting

Lead datacenter contracting

Lead network contracting

Manage operational terms

Manage resilience terms

Map concentration risk

Map long-lead dependencies

Identify structural changes for flexibility

Partner with Finance on sizing

Partner with Finance on minimum-commitment terms

Partner with Security on datacenter access

Partner with Security on regulated-infrastructure requirements

Manage legal dimensions of strategic infrastructure relationships

Manage legal dimensions of hardware relationships

Apply export flow-downs in agreements

Apply trade-control flow-downs in agreements

Build template library

Build SLA-credit playbooks

Build intake workflows

Assist on financing transactions

Assist on procurement transactions

Support partnership workstreams

Support strategic-relationship workstreams

Assist on M&A transactions

Assist on vendor-integration transactions

Assist on strategic transactions

Assist on one-off transactions

Conduct diligence on inherited agreements

Ensure continuity of critical supply post-close

Pitch in on customer deals

Pitch in on Sales deals

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Commercial leads; Partner with legal leads; Work with Engineering; Work with Infra; Work with Finance; Work with AI, Privacy & Governance; Partner with Procurement

Communication Scope

Translate infrastructure concepts

Full Job Description

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-s-300m-series-e/, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Compute is existential for Baseten. As AI inference infrastructure, our ability to serve customer traffic depends on a sophisticated, multi-layered compute and infrastructure supply chain. We're hiring an Assistant General Counsel, Infra & Compute to own the legal strategy and execution behind it. This role owns the inbound, supply-side deal surface: compute and infrastructure-services agreements, capacity commitments, and the contracting that keeps production online. These are early structural decisions with long-term consequences — flexibility, exit optionality, and SLA enforceability all get set here. You'll partner closely with our Commercial and other legal leads — working hand in glove and all hands on deck on customer and Sales deals — and may support Partnerships and the strategic relationships behind Model Labs / Frontier Gateways and other key initiatives. Your center of gravity is the compute and infrastructure supply chain; that work comes first even as you flex onto deal support and other initiatives. RESPONSIBILITIES - Own and lead negotiations for GPU compute, cloud capacity, and infrastructure-services agreements across Baseten's multi-provider stack, building flexibility, exit optionality, and enforceable SLAs in before they're needed - Lead colocation, power, datacenter, and network contracting, including the opera

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