Senior Compute Legal Counsel

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Legal

Legal counsel for Mistral AI's compute deals, advising on contracts, compliance, IP, privacy, and export control, working with major providers like NVIDIA and Microsoft.

What you'd actually do

  1. Draft, negotiate, and provide strategic advice on contracts related to establishing deploying, maintaining and commercializing our Compute operations, including hardware, data center development, customer contracts and other compute and cloud related contracts.
  2. Act as product counsel for the Mistral Compute business including advising on legal and regulatory compliance.
  3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial-legal, procurement, finance, and other corporate functions.
  4. Build our internal templates, practices and guidelines to help the business and legal scale.
  5. Support on other related legal topics as needed, especially on the compliance front (e.g. OFAC and similar topics).

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor degree or above (LLB, LLM, Juris Doctor preferred) from an accredited law school in Europe.
  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant legal experience, including in-house experience in the technology space.
  • Strong experience in structuring and negotiating compute or infrastructure deals with an understanding of cloud and technology related industries.
  • Knowledge and usage of Artificial Intelligence: An understanding of artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, natural language processing and their applications is important.
  • Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex contractual structures, interactions in the contract chain and their interplay with financing topics and technical constraints.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent negotiation skills. Excellent written and verbal communication; strong ability to communicate legal advice to clients and colleagues, and presenting complex legal concepts in a clear and understandable manner. Business oriented and willing to dive into the technology with the business is a must
  • Adaptability: Given the rapidly evolving nature of AI technologies and compute topics, and the legal landscape surrounding them, candidates should be adaptable and willing to continuously learn and update their skills and knowledge. Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. Proactive, flexible, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Ethical Awareness: A strong understanding of ethical considerations related to AI, such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation, is important.

Nice to have

  • Admission to practice law in another jurisdiction is a plus.
  • International experience is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong experience in structuring and negotiating compute or infrastructure deals
  • An understanding of artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, natural language processing and their applications is important.
  • Ability to analyze complex contractual structures, interactions in the contract chain and their interplay with financing topics and technical constraints.
  • Excellent negotiation skills.
  • Business oriented and willing to dive into the technology with the business is a must
  • Given the rapidly evolving nature of AI technologies and compute topics, and the legal landscape surrounding them, candidates should be adaptable and willing to continuously learn and update their skills and knowledge.
  • A strong understanding of ethical considerations related to AI, such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation, is important.