General Counsel

### **About** [**FAR.AI**](http://FAR.AI) http://FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. We work at the intersection of machine learning, safety research, and policy, supporting a global community of researchers and practitioners. At http://FAR.AI, we believe in thoughtful, inclusive, and rigorous work that empowers our team and partners to do their best work. Since our founding in July 2022, we've grown quickly to 40+ staff, producing 30+ influential academic papers, and established the leading AI Safety events for research and international cooperation. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues and features in the Financial Times, Nature News, Forbes, and MIT Technology Review. We drive practical change through red-teaming with frontier model developers and government institutions. Most recently, we discovered major issues with Anthropic’s latest model [the same day it was released](https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1926138376509440433), and [worked with OpenAI](https://x.com/ARGleave/status/1946366030844141716) to safeguard their latest model. Additionally, we help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio. We also operate FAR.Labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley, housing 40 members, as well as support the community through targeted grants to technical researchers. ### **The Role** As our first General Counsel, you'll have the unique opportunity to build http://FAR.AI's legal infrastructure from scratch and work directly with leadership to shape the organization's future. We’re looking for someone practical who has done it in-house, knows what good looks like, and is comfortable making clear calls quickly while flagging issues that warrant outside counsel. We’re looking for an embedded legal partner who can assess risk in context and establish governance and controls that scale with us. We expect our GC to use AI legal tools as a core part of their practice. Comfort using tools like Claude for Legal, or equivalents, is part of how we expect legal work to be done at http://FAR.AI. ### **Why This Role / Why Now** http://FAR.AI is entering a pivotal phase of growth, backed by over $75M in funding and expanding opportunities to shape how advanced AI systems are developed and governed. Our work spans technical research, policy, and operations, including partnerships, such as red-teaming frontier models with leading AI companies and governments. http://FAR.AI also runs the events, programs, HR, communications, and community spaces that connect the global AI safety ecosystem. We are leveling up our legal capacity as the scope and impact of our work accelerate. Your work, as http://FAR.AI’s General Counsel, will enable much of what we do, from funding AI safety research and events to expanding into new geographies. If you join, you're not supporting the organization; you're building the institutional backbone of a field that didn't exist five years ago. For lawyers who enjoy building (e.g., would be excited to build a legal agent), who are proactive problem-solvers, and who roll up their sleeves to get things done, this is a rare opportunity to drive long-term societal impact. **Key Responsibilities** - **Commercial contracting.** Partner with leaders across the organization to review, advise, and draft contracts for grants, consulting agreements, vendor contracts, compute commitments, research partnerships, and any other needs. Advise on risk and commercial terms across the organization. - **Contractual compliance.** Oversee http://FAR.AI's compliance obligations across its contract portfolio (government, commercial, and grant agreements), in coordination with the operations team. - **Internal policies.** Support and build http://FAR.AI's policies across employment, data privacy, conflicts of interest, and related areas. Keep policies co…