- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- San MateoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Legal
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
Full-time
Senior Legal Counsel
Job description
We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.
The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs.
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone.
Job responsibilities
- Commercial & strategic transactions: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, customer and vendor contracts, pilots, SOWs, NDAs, and other technology transactions;
- Corporate & fundraising: Support financings, fundraising, corporate governance, board and stockholder matters, diligence, and other corporate workstreams, coordinating with external counsel as needed.
- AI, data & technology: Advise on legal issues related to Generalist’s technology, including training data, data-use rights, models and fine-tunes, intellectual property, confidentiality and privacy, deployment, and…
- Legal advice & risk management: Serve as a practical legal advisor across the company, translating legal risk into clear recommendations that help teams move quickly and make sound decisions.
- Legal infrastructure & external counsel: Build scalable templates, playbooks, policies, and processes, and manage outside counsel where specialized support is needed.
- Emerging legal landscape: Stay current on developments in AI, LLMs, robotics, privacy, intellectual property, regulation, market practices, and contractual precedent, and take on new legal issues as they arise.
Job requirements
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 6–10+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience at a technology company, technology-focused law firm, or both.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial technology agreements.
- Ability to independently identify legal issues, assess risk, develop a recommendation, and drive matters to resolution without requiring significant day-to-day supervision.
- Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law, with the ability to work across a broad range of legal issues rather than specializing narrowly in a single area.
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts, work effectively with engineering and research teams, and advise on technology, data, intellectual property, privacy, or related legal issues.
- Excellent commercial judgment and an ability to give clear, practical advice rather than simply identifying legal risks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.