Commercial Counsel

We're building the marketplace that will help power the largest infrastructure expansion in history.

AI infrastructure requires enormous investment, but financing GPU clusters comes with significant risk. Today, developers and lenders manage that risk through long-term, fixed-price contracts that lock customers into substantial financial commitments, often years before the infrastructure is built.

This creates a fundamental problem: AI companies need access to compute, but few can afford the risk of committing to millions of dollars in infrastructure they may not ultimately need.

SF Compute is changing that.

We're creating a liquid marketplace for GPU compute contracts, enabling companies to buy and sell compute capacity as their needs evolve. By bringing flexibility and liquidity to a traditionally rigid market, we're reducing financial risk, unlocking infrastructure investment, and making large-scale AI compute accessible to companies of all sizes.

Our mission is to make AI compute more accessible, flexible, and financially sustainable.

About SF Compute

At SF Compute, we’re a tight-knit team of about 60 based in San Francisco. We think about infrastructure the way it should work—fast, scalable, and actually pleasant to use. We’re not big on hierarchy or fluff; we care about people who take ownership, follow through, and genuinely like solving hard problems. The pace here is real, and so is the expectation that you’ll show up ready to contribute and lead from first principles.

About The Role

SF Compute is looking for a Commercial Counsel to help build and scale our commercial legal function as we grow our AI infrastructure business. This role will partner closely with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Operations, Engineering, and leadership teams to structure, negotiate, and execute high-impact commercial agreements that enable the business to move quickly while managing risk.

You will own a broad range of commercial transactions, including enterprise customer agreements, strategic partnerships, technology agreements, vendor contracts, and infrastructure-related deals. This is a highly collaborative role for a practical, business-oriented attorney who enjoys operating in ambiguity, solving complex problems, and building scalable processes in a fast-moving technology environment.

The ideal candidate combines strong commercial judgment with a genuine interest in AI, compute infrastructure, and emerging technologies. You will help create the legal foundation that allows SF Compute to scale responsibly and efficiently.

This role is based in our San Francisco office and requires working onsite five days per week. We believe close collaboration and in-person partnership are critical as we build the legal foundation for a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure company.

What You Will Do

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, including enterprise customer agreements, master services agreements, vendor agreements, technology agreements, strategic partnerships, NDAs, and other similar contracts.
• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to structure deals that align with business objectives while appropriately managing legal and commercial risk.
• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to business teams, providing practical guidance on contract strategy, negotiation approaches, and business tradeoffs.
• Support commercial transactions involving AI infrastructure, compute services, data center operations, technology partnerships, and other strategic initiatives.
• Develop and improve contract processes, playbooks, and frameworks that enable teams to move faster while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Identify and proactively address legal, regulatory, privacy, intellectual property, and operational considerations impacting commercial activities.
• Work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive deals from initial discussions through execution.
• Bring strong ownership and judgment to new and evolving legal challenges as the company scales.

Who You Are

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• 3-5+ years of legal experience, including experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal team.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of complex commercial technology agreements.
• Experience supporting technology companies, cloud infrastructure, AI, data centers, SaaS, hardware, or other technical businesses strongly preferred.
• Ability to understand complex technical products and translate business objectives into practical legal solutions.
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.

Benefits

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Retirement matching:

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off:

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental leave:

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch:

We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want!

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.