Founding Legal Counsel

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7 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Robotics • Software
The Role
Founding Legal Counsel

What You’ll Do
  • Act as day-to-day legal partner to founders and leadership across company decisions

  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including customer, partner, vendor, and research collaborations

  • Support hiring and people operations including employment agreements, contractor arrangements, policies, and compliance

  • Manage intellectual property matters including NDAs, invention assignment, open source use, and coordination with outside patent counsel

  • Handle corporate governance, board materials, subsidiary setup, equity administration, and related documentation

  • Support fundraising and financing processes alongside outside counsel

  • Advise on regulatory and operational risk related to robotics, autonomy, data, and deployment in the physical world

  • Develop practical policies and lightweight processes that enable speed while maintaining compliance

  • Coordinate and manage outside counsel across corporate, employment, IP, and regulatory matters

  • Provide clear, actionable guidance to non-legal teams

  • Operate as a hands-on generalist and take ownership of issues end-to-end

What You’ll Bring
  • J.D. and active membership in the California State Bar

  • Experience at a law firm or in-house role covering multiple legal domains

  • Comfort operating as a generalist across corporate, commercial, employment, and IP matters

  • Familiarity with French law and regulatory frameworks, particularly as they relate to corporate structure, employment, or cross-border operation

  • Experience negotiating technology, commercial, or partnership agreements

  • Ability to translate legal risk into practical business guidance

  • High ownership, autonomy, and sound judgment

  • Ability to work closely with engineers, researchers, and operations teams

  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving and ambiguous environment

  • Strong written and verbal communication

  • Ideally: Experience at a startup or high-growth technology company

  • Ideally: Experience supporting venture financings and board governance

  • Ideally: Familiarity with hardware, robotics, autonomy, or AI companies

  • Ideally: Experience building legal processes from zero and scaling them over time

  • Ideally: Experience working with intellectual property in Asia


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The Company
32 Employees

What We Do

Genesis is a global physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company. We build generalist robots to unlock unlimited physical labor, so humans can focus on creativity, curiosity, and what we love. We are a new generation of robotics builders, united by a shared mission to push the boundaries of physical AI. Our team brings together the minds behind many of the most significant advances in robotics and AI in recent years — spanning the full stack. We introduced generative simulation, created foundational platforms such as Genesis, Jiminy, Flightmare, GVBD Voxels, and invented the IPC algorithm. We led the development of the first multimodal models at Mistral AI and Apple Intelligence. We co-created UMI and Diffusion Policy, pioneered reinforcement learning frameworks for superhuman drone racing, and scaled robotic data systems at NVIDIA GR00T. We built cross-platform GPU compilers such as VeriGPU, DeepCL, Coriander, and the original PyTorch. We also built industry-leading rendering engines at Google, Epic and Unity. Now, we’ve come together at Genesis AI to close the loop, and build what’s next.

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