Careers / Open position

Senior Counsel

Fully remote. Full-time or part-time. Technology transactions and project development contracting for companies deploying real infrastructure.

Experience8+ years
LocationFully remote
ScheduleFull or part-time
Compensation$225,000 to $325,000

The role

You hold the pen

You own deals end to end. You set the structure, write the first draft or take over the counterparty paper, run every negotiation session, and carry the agreement to signature. Nobody sits between you and the other side.

These are the transactions that decide a client's next three years, and the counterparty is often represented by a firm ten times our size. That is the job.

The relationship

The lawyer clients call first

We want someone who becomes the go-to lawyer for a group of clients. Founders and executives bring you the question before the deal takes shape, not after the term sheet is signed, because you answered well the last four times.

That means you work as a business counselor as much as a lawyer. The legal answer is the easy part. Clients need someone who understands what the company is trying to build, what it can afford to concede, and which fight is worth having this quarter.

Day to day

What you will do

  • Structure transactions rather than only paper the deal the business already agreed to.
  • Draft first-position agreements and take over counterparty paper without a template to lean on.
  • Run negotiations directly, including the calls, the issues lists, and the closing sequence.
  • Advise founders and executives on risk, and give a recommendation rather than a survey of options.
  • Judge proportion. Decide which risks matter at a fifty person company and which ones do not.
  • Build the templates and positions that let the rest of the team handle the next one without you.
  • Keep accurate time records.

The documents

Agreements you can handle expertly and on your own.

Nobody has done every one of these. We are looking for real depth across one column and working command of the other.

Technology transactions

  • Technology license agreements, inbound and outbound, including field-of-use limits, improvements, and royalty and milestone structures.
  • Joint development and collaboration agreements, with the ownership and background intellectual property terms that decide who owns the result.
  • Non-recurring engineering and development agreements, including tooling ownership and amortization.
  • Foundry, wafer supply, packaging, and test agreements.
  • Contract manufacturing and original design manufacturer agreements, including capacity reservation, allocation, and end-of-life terms.
  • Component supply agreements with pricing mechanics, forecast and commitment structures, and last-time-buy rights.
  • Software, firmware, and data agreements, including source code escrow and open source obligations.
  • Master services agreements and statements of work for engineering services.
  • Reseller, channel, and integration agreements.
  • Trade secret, confidentiality, and intellectual property assignment structures across a supply chain.

Project development

  • Engineering, procurement, and construction agreements, including the fixed price, milestone, and liquidated damages structures that carry the risk.
  • Balance of plant and installation contracts, and the interface risk between multiple contractors.
  • Long-lead equipment supply agreements, including transformers, switchgear, power electronics, and storage systems.
  • Power purchase agreements, offtake agreements, and tolling arrangements.
  • Interconnection agreements and the utility and system operator process around them.
  • Site control documents, including leases, options, easements, and access rights.
  • Joint development agreements and co-development structures between project partners.
  • Operations and maintenance agreements, along with performance guarantees, availability warranties, and the testing regime that proves them.
  • Warranty, defect, and remedy structures across the equipment and construction package.
  • Diligence support for project finance and tax equity, including the representations a lender or an investor will demand.

Who fits

Eight or more years in practice.

Required

  • Eight or more years in practice. Substantial in-house time, or law firm practice with heavy direct client contact.
  • A J.D. and an active bar license. California, or any other United States jurisdiction, in good standing.
  • Technology transactions, project development contracting, or both. See the list below. We expect expert and independent handling, not familiarity.
  • Lead negotiator experience. You have sat across from large firms and closed the deal yourself.
  • First-draft capability. You can write a complex agreement from a blank page and defend every clause in it.
  • Business counseling instinct. You advise on the decision, not only on the document. Clients should leave the call knowing what to do.
  • Comfort with ambiguity. Early-stage companies ask questions with no clean answer. You still give one.

Preferred

  • In-house experience at a hardware, energy, semiconductor, or industrial company.
  • Experience building a legal function from nothing.
  • Work on first-of-a-kind projects, where no precedent document exists.
Worth saying plainly

This role suits a lawyer who wants senior work without a partnership track or a single-company career. Several of our clients would hire you outright. That is the point.

Apply

Apply in a few minutes.

Applications go through a short form. It asks for your resume and one agreement you drafted or redlined, with all client names and confidential terms removed. It takes a few minutes.

Start your application