Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel

The posting, as Lila Sciences wrote it

Your Impact at LILA

As Associate Director/Director, Frontier and AI Product Counsel at Lila Sciences, you will be the dedicated legal partner to the teams building Scientific Superintelligence™ — our AI research organization, our AI Science Factory™ platform, and the data, safety, and security functions that support them. You will own the legal questions that come with training frontier models on scientific data and running experiments autonomously: where data comes from and what we can do with it, how rights are allocated when we discover something alongside a partner, what we can publish or open-source, and how we build, evaluate, and release capable systems responsibly.

This is deliberately a build role, not a maintenance role. Much of this work has no settled precedent and no off-the-shelf playbook — you will frequently be designing the framework rather than applying one. You'll partner daily with scientists, ML researchers, platform engineers, and our safety and security teams, and closely with our privacy, commercial, and go-to-market colleagues as the platform is deployed, and you'll be the person who translates between technical reality and legal risk in both directions.

This role reports to the Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Product and is scoped for an experienced attorney with 7–12 years of experience who wants to work at the intersection of law, AI, and science, and who is energized rather than unsettled by novel questions. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, opinionated about risk, and willing to sit with a research team long enough to actually understand what they're building.

What You'll Be Building

Data and model development

• Advise research and data teams on permissible data usage across the training pipeline, and build the provenance and acquisition frameworks that govern what goes into Lila's models
• Serve as a subject matter expert on copyright, licensing, privacy, and contractual restrictions as applied to training data — public, licensed, synthetic, open-source, and partner-contributed alike
• Support structuring and negotiation of data licensing, material transfer, consortium, and research collaboration agreements with academic, clinical, and industry partners, including how rights in data, models, and derived outputs are allocated

Release and disclosure

• Advise on release decisions for models, agents, tools, and datasets, including open-weight strategy and the application of open-source licenses to incoming and outgoing code, data, and model artifacts
• Coordinate legal readiness for model and platform launches — model documentation and system cards, capability evaluations, and review of pre-release and internal-only models
• Support publication and disclosure review, balancing scientific openness against partner obligations and safety considerations
• Counsel research teams on research design, data collection and sharing, external collaborations, and program launches, including align

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de the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Expected Base Salary Range
$232,000 — $360,000 USD

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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