Assistant General Counsel, Infrastructure & Compute

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own and lead negotiations for GPU compute, cloud capacity, and infrastructure-services agreements across Baseten's multi-provider stack
• ▹Lead colocation, power, datacenter, and network contracting, including operational and resilience terms
• ▹Map concentration risk and long-lead dependencies across the vendor portfolio
• ▹Manage the legal dimensions of strategic infrastructure and hardware relationships
• ▹Apply export and trade-control flow-downs in compute and hardware agreements
• ▹Build the template library, SLA-credit playbooks, and intake workflows for self-serve transactions
• ▹Assist on M&A, vendor-integration, and other strategic transactions
• ▹Support customer and Sales deals alongside the broader legal team

Requirements

• ▹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, or colocation contracting
• ▹Fluency in availability and SLA constructs, capacity and route diversity
• ▹Experience with high-volume, template-driven vendor contracting
• ▹Strong judgment about when vendor terms create downstream risk
• ▹Commercially grounded communicator who partners with Engineering, Infra, and Finance
• ▹Ability to learn and master AI tooling to self-serve at speed

Nice to have

• ▹In-house experience at a cloud provider, neocloud, hyperscaler, datacenter operator, or hardware/semiconductor company
• ▹Direct experience with GPU/hardware supply agreements, bare-metal procurement, or large compute-capacity commitments
• ▹Experience with hyperscaler strategic agreements
• ▹Familiarity with M&A integration and inherited-vendor continuity
• ▹Experience at an AI, ML, or developer-infrastructure company

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• ▹100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• ▹Flexible PTO policy including company-wide Winter Break
• ▹Paid parental leave
• ▹Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• ▹Company-facilitated 401(k)
• ▹Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering learning and networking opportunities

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital.