Commercial Legal Counsel, Mistral AI
United States
+ Equity
Visa sponsorship
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Generative AI model developers
Open for applications
Generative AI model developers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
Visa sponsorship
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make frontier AI ubiquitous, and to provide tailor-made AI to all the builders.
Role
Who you are
- JD from an accredited law school and state bar membership
- 4+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience. In-house technology experience and experience in a fast-paced and high-growth environment are strong pluses
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including creating and refining form agreements
- Generalist skill set with the willingness to tackle problems outside your core expertise
- Ability to balance an attention to detail with the requirements of a fast-paced company
- Demonstrated business and pragmatic judgment, and the ability to analyze the costs/benefits of proposed resolutions to complex legal and technical problems
- Proven ability to build solid, trusting, and credible relationships, including working closely with science, engineering, business, and marketing teams
- Excellent writing, communication, and people skills
- An understanding of AI technologies and their applications, including how they intersect with relevant areas of law, such as privacy and data protection, competition, and intellectual property, and related ethical considerations such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation
- An international mindset and experience is a plus
- Given the rapidly evolving nature of AI technologies and the legal landscape surrounding them, you should be adaptable and willing to continuously learn and update your skills and knowledge
What the job involves
- As Commercial Legal Counsel, you’ll be joining the growing Mistral AI legal team, which currently has team members based in Paris and Palo Alto
- You will be the second member to join our team in the US and will be an instrumental part of supporting our company in bringing state-of-the-art AI models and products to the world in collaboration with our science, engineering, business, and marketing teams
- The core of this role is drafting and negotiating commercial agreements to support the growth of our business in the US
- As part of a start-up legal team, you’ll need to be nimble enough to also work on product matters (privacy, marketing and regulatory compliance), corporate legal work, intellectual property, employment issues, and other matters, as needed
- You should be genuinely interested in working on cutting-edge legal and policy issues in the rapidly evolving AI space
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts across the business, including creating new form agreements
- Manage the development and improvement of legal and approval processes, workflow process improvements, company policies, internal training and guides, and templates to scale with the company as it grows
- Provide solution-oriented legal, regulatory, and strategic advice and direction to teams across our company from the initial stages of project development to launch and beyond
- Efficiently manage and work with outside counsel to support projects you manage
- Stay up-to-date and ensure compliance with U.S. and international laws and regulations that apply to AI technologies, including privacy and data protection, competition, consumer protection, payments, and intellectual property
- Build positive relationships across the company and with its external partners
Our take
Founded by Facebook AI researchers, Mistral AI focuses on developing open-source generative AI models to "make AI useful." It emerged in early 2023, quickly achieving a $260 million valuation.
Mistral features up to 176 billion parameters, and its open-source nature has sparked concerns about potential misuse. However, Mistral remains a formidable competitor in the AI landscape, challenging models from Google and Meta.
In 2025, Mistral secured a massive €1.7 billion funding round, raising its valuation to €11.7 billion. This Series B funding, led by European chip firm ASML, underscores significant interest in alternatives to ChatGPT and a push away from Silicon Valley dependence by European AI competitors.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$2.0bn
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$551.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $3.1bn
Company benefits
- Competitive bonus structure
- Equity
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Company HQ
Villette, Paris, France
Leadership
Timothee Lacroix
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously PhD and Software Engineer Intern at Facebook and Visiting Undergraduate at CAlab UCSD
Guillaume Lample
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Research Student and Scientist at Facebook AI and Research Intern at Jane Street Capital
Arthur Mensch
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, Post-doc researcher at École normale supérieure, Visiting Researcher at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and PhD Student at Inria
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