Legal Counsel, DeepMind
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London, UK
Legal Counsel, DeepMind
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Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of attorney-level (post-qualification) experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
- 3 years of experience negotiating government partnerships or engaged in government procurement agreements, or advising on commercial and research matters for a technology company or at a law firm.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience advising in the frontier AI, national security, cybersecurity, or public sector spaces.
- Experience in life sciences, cybersecurity, materials, or AI within education and healthcare.
- Experience advising on AI issues, particularly in partnering with executives on such matters.
- Understanding of opportunities and risks of AI agents, models and systems.
- Ability to make judgement calls on a regular basis, and thoughtful about the real world consequences of those decisions.
- Ability to act as a team player who can operate independently in a highly collaborative team with passion for Google DeepMind’s mission.
About the job
The Google DeepMind Legal team provides proactive and legal counseling to accelerate Google DeepMind’s research, ensure smooth operations and enable fast-paced progress towards our mission.
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements (collaboration, research and development (R&D), licensing, services, and procurement) with university, commercial or government partners.
- Assist in providing impactful legal advice to a range of functional areas within Google DeepMind for the smooth and efficient running of the business on a day-to-day basis.
- Advice clients across all phases of the contract lifecycle, from early stage shaping, to negotiating, to post-sign implementation and compliance.
- Advice through the lifecycle of AI model development from ideation, training, testing, validation, publication, commercial and partnership strategy, and open release strategy.
- Support the Legal team’s initiatives to manage and track objectives and key results (OKRs), coordinate legal processes, and report on key legal metrics in support of high-level team strategies.
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