Baseten
Technology
AssistantGeneralCounsel,Infrastructure&Compute
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“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.
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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