Assistant General Counsel, Baseten

• JD and active bar membership in good standing
• 8+ years of technology-transactions experience with meaningful buy-side exposure to compute, cloud, hardware supply chain, datacenter, colocation, or critical-infrastructure contracting
• Fluency in availability and SLA constructs, capacity and route diversity, and how compute, colo, power, and network terms interact
• Experience with high-volume, template-driven vendor contracting and the discipline to keep it fast without losing control of risk
• Strong judgment about when vendor terms create downstream risk for availability, cost, or operational flexibility, and how to direct specialized outside counsel
• Commercially grounded communicator who can translate infrastructure concepts into clear risk calls and partner deeply with Engineering, Infra, and Finance
• The ability to learn, build, and master AI tooling and systems to self-serve and operate at breakneck speed
• A desire to become a recognized thought leader in your field

Desirable

• 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
• 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 operational and resilience terms that keep production sites online
• Map concentration risk and long-lead dependencies across the vendor portfolio and identify where structural changes unlock flexibility — partnering with Finance on sizing and minimum-commitment terms and with Security on datacenter access and regulated-infrastructure requirements
• Manage the legal dimensions of strategic infrastructure and hardware relationships, including arrangements where a counterparty plays more than one role
• Apply export and trade-control flow-downs (e.g., end-use / end-user terms) in compute and hardware agreements, under the policy and screening framework owned by AI, Privacy & Governance
• Build the template library, SLA-credit playbooks, and intake workflows so Procurement and Infra teams can self-serve standard transactions at scale
• May assist on other related transactions involving the financing and procurement of compute and capacity
• May support the partnership and strategic-relationship workstreams behind Model Labs / Frontier Gateways and other key initiatives
• May assist on M&A, vendor-integration, and other strategic or one-off transactions, including diligence on inherited infrastructure agreements and continuity of critical supply post-close
• Pitch in on customer and Sales deals alongside the broader legal team, and escalate novel terms that create downstream risk to availability or operational flexibility