Counsel, Infrastructure

Posted 8 Days Ago
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3 Locations
Hybrid
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Counsel will lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements supporting data center development, including supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, and technology transactions. The role manages sophisticated negotiations, oversees outside counsel, coordinates transactions across internal teams, and advises business leaders on legal and commercial risks. Candidates must hold an active law license and demonstrate strong judgment, communication, and experience handling high-stakes agreements.
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About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.


We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate
  • Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

  • Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

  • Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

  • Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Legal Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

  • Build the legal and compliance function from zero, for the largest compute buildout in history. No inherited playbook, no legacy team. The systems, standards, and team we build are the ones a company deploying gigawatts will run on for the next decade.

  • Make legal a source of speed. We structure and close complex deals in weeks that typically take quarters. That only work when we calibrate risk from first principles of business enablement. Our job is judgment, applied fast enough that legal helps drive the deal across the finish line.

  • Cover the entire legal surface with a lean team. A small team owns everything, and much of it involves business structures the market hasn’t seen before. You invent the solution with our business team.

Role Scope
  • Structure, draft, and negotiate the commercial agreements behind Fluidstack’s data center buildout, across supply chain, manufacturing, and procurement.

  • Run complex negotiations with sophisticated counterparties end to end, balancing legal risk against the speed our business demands.

  • Manage outside counsel across substantive disciplines with rigor on scope, quality, and spend.

  • Quarterback transactions cross-functionally with supply chain, procurement, and delivery teams so deals never stall.

  • Advise business leaders as a strategic partner, anticipating legal and commercial issues before they arise and having solutions ready.

What We’re Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don’t fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

  • You hold an active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and can meet admission requirements where you will practice.

  • You’ve autonomously structured, drafted, and negotiated complex commercial agreements as lead attorney, against sophisticated counterparties, in areas that map directly to data center development: supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, technology transactions, or similar.

  • You’ve personally made sound, commercially pragmatic calls in ambiguous, high-stakes situations, and colleagues can point to deals where your judgment changed the outcome.

  • You’ve overseen outside counsel across multiple disciplines and held them to a rigorous bar on scope, quality, and spend.

  • You write and speak clearly enough to turn a dense legal issue into a decision and a next step for an executive or a counterparty.

  • Bonus: A mix of law firm and in-house experience. Using AI to improve legal work and efficiency. In-house experience at a data center developer or cloud company.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [email protected] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Skills Required

  • Active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and ability to meet admission requirements where practicing
  • Experience autonomously structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements as lead attorney
  • Experience in supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, technology transactions, data center development, or a similar area
  • Demonstrated sound, commercially pragmatic judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes situations
  • Experience overseeing outside counsel across multiple disciplines, including scope, quality, and spend
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills for translating complex legal issues into executive decisions and next steps
  • Law firm and in-house experience
  • Experience using AI to improve legal work and efficiency
  • In-house experience at a data center developer or cloud company
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The Company
HQ: London
30 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Instantly reserve dedicated clusters of NVIDIA H200s and GB200s for any scale to supercharge your training and inference workflows.

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