At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About SandboxAQ
- SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
- We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
- At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
About the role
- SandboxAQ is seeking a Commercial Counsel to own the deals that move the business forward, with a particular focus on life sciences and computational chemistry work.
- As an early legal hire, you will help build a forward-thinking, business-savvy, dynamic legal team by establishing playbooks, templates, and self-serve paths.
Responsibilities
- Own customer deals end to end, structuring, drafting, and negotiating customer engagements, research collaborations, sponsored research agreements, industry partnerships, commercial pilots, and data in-licenses.
- Work closely with sales and business teams, with a focus on life sciences and computational chemistry deals, including in the material science and drug-discovery spaces.
- Own and build out capabilities for broader contract work, negotiating customer agreements and statements of work across business units, channel and technology partnerships, NDAs, and vendor, SaaS, and professional services agreements.
- Act as a trusted partner to science and business teams, working directly with PhD chemists, biologists, and ML researchers, alongside general managers, finance, and R&D leadership.
- Proactively identify key issues and lead the broader group through the problem-solving process.
- Build for scale by creating and maintaining playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and escalation paths.
- Stand up self-serve routes for routine agreements and use AI tooling to accelerate review, triage, and drafting.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree, with admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 6+ years of substantive commercial transactional experience, with a demonstrated record of independently owning and closing complex technology or science-driven deals.
- Deep fluency in a broad spectrum of business and commercial engagement and transaction structures, IP ownership and license scope, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, and termination.
- Strategic and agile, with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and a strong desire to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up.
- Collaborative and high EQ, with the ability to build relationships across diverse teams and translate complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
- Retirement savings with company matching
- Paid parental leave
- Inclusive family-building benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Flexible paid time off
- Company-wide seasonal breaks
Workplace
- Fully remote
Skills
- AI Tooling