Assistant General Counsel, Infrastructure & Compute

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

Compute is existential for Baseten. As AI inference infrastructure, our ability to serve customer traffic depends on a sophisticated, multi-layered compute and infrastructure supply chain. We're hiring an Assistant General Counsel, Infra & Compute to own the legal strategy and execution behind it.

This role owns the inbound, supply-side deal surface: compute and infrastructure-services agreements, capacity commitments, and the contracting that keeps production online. These are early structural decisions with long-term consequences — flexibility, exit optionality, and SLA enforceability all get set here. You'll partner closely with our Commercial and other legal leads — working hand in glove and all hands on deck on customer and Sales deals — and may support Partnerships and the strategic relationships behind Model Labs / Frontier Gateways and other key initiatives. Your center of gravity is the compute and infrastructure supply chain; that work comes first even as you flex onto deal support and other initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own and lead negotiations for GPU compute, cloud capacity, and infrastructure-services agreements across Baseten's multi-provider stack, building flexibility, exit optionality, and enforceable SLAs in before they're needed

- Lead colocation, power, datacenter, and network contracting, i...