Legal Intern - Fall 2026

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San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
38-48 Hourly
Internship
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The Role
Legal intern supporting Commercial and Corporate Legal teams with customer, vendor, NDA, M&A, financing, and public-company matters. Responsibilities include creating contract triage playbooks, maintaining clause and template libraries, using AI tools for intake and issue spotting, drafting negotiation response templates, and assisting with CLM platform implementation. The role requires strong legal writing and analytical skills, contracts coursework, and at least one day per week in the San Francisco office.
Summary Generated by Built In

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Join Lambda's Legal team as a generalist intern, gaining hands-on in-house experience across Commercial and Corporate matters at a fast-paced AI infrastructure company. You'll work directly on a variety of commercial agreements (customer, vendor, NDA, and more) alongside corporate transactions like M&A, financing, and public company readiness. Beyond supporting the team's active transaction pipeline, you'll take ownership of several concrete projects designed to modernize how the team reviews and manages contracts.

What You’ll Do

  • Opportunity to get hands-on experience working in-house as a generalist supporting the Commercial and Corporate Legal teams at a fast-paced AI infrastructure company.

  • You will be a generalist supporting the team on many exciting transactions we have in the pipeline but some additional specific projects we have in mind:

  • Draft and validate an NDA and vendor-agreement triage playbook with clear GREEN/YELLOW/RED classification criteria and escalation paths

  • Build and annotate a clause and template library reflecting Lambda's standard and fallback contract positions

  • Use Claude or other AI tools to build and test an intake workflow that produces first-pass issue-spot summaries for counsel review

  • Draft a library of response templates for routine counterparty negotiation asks

  • Assist with onboarding the company on a new contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform

You

  • Currently pursuing a JD (2L or 3L preferred)

  • Have completed contracts coursework, with strong legal writing and analytical skills

  • Are comfortable working with AI-assisted tools such as Claude, or eager to learn them

  • Ability to work at least 1 day per week in our San Francisco office

Nice to Have

  • Prior internship at a law firm or in-house legal team

  • Experience with corporate and securities law and/or commercial or technology agreements

  • Familiarity with contract lifecycle or legal workflow tools

Salary Range Information

This is an hourly role, eligible for overtime. The hourly rate for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, an hourly rate higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

  • Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

  • Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

  • We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

  • Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

  • We offer generous cash & equity compensation

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

  • Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles

  • 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)

  • Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Skills Required

  • Currently pursuing a JD, preferably in the second or third year
  • Completed contracts coursework
  • Strong legal writing skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Comfort working with AI-assisted tools such as Claude, or willingness to learn them
  • Ability to work at least one day per week in the San Francisco office
  • Prior internship at a law firm or in-house legal team
  • Experience with corporate and securities law or commercial and technology agreements
  • Familiarity with contract lifecycle or legal workflow tools

Lambda Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lambda and has not been reviewed or approved by Lambda.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is described as competitive or generous, particularly in technical roles. Some employees also highlight strong cash pay relative to workload and remote flexibility.
  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision benefits that extend to dependents. This core coverage is positioned as a strength alongside competitive pay.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies include flexible PTO that is encouraged and used, plus roughly 12 paid holidays and around 5 sick days. These elements are noted as helping reduce burnout and supporting flexibility.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
750 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure and the #1 GPU Cloud for ML/AI teams. Their mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.

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