Example Company
Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Head of Legal
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $200K - $325K
- Posted
- 1H AGO
About the role
About the role
About David AI
At David AI, our vision is to bring impactful AI into billions of lives through voice. Our mission is to help the world's leading AI companies build better voice models and agents. We're building the data and evaluation infrastructure behind those models.
Founded in 2024, we're a fast-growing Series B company backed by NVIDIA, Meritech, First Round, YC, and others, with ~70 people across San Francisco and New York City.
About this role
We're hiring a Head of Legal , our founding legal hire, working closely with our executive team.
Given the nature of our business, we view legal as a strategic function that can help us build a stronger competitive moat and accelerate our growth, not just a back-office function. You'll have broad ownership across the company, navigating complex legal questions at the frontier of AI while building our legal function from the ground up.
In this role, you will
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Lead legal strategy across the business, serving as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team.
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Navigate complex AI, data, and privacy questions related to data acquisition, AI model training, and evaluation.
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Own commercial and transactional legal work, including negotiating agreements with the world's leading AI labs.
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Advise across a broad range of corporate, regulatory, and legal matters, working with external counsel where appropriate.
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Build and scale our legal function, including its processes, infrastructure, and eventually, team.
Your background looks like
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5–12 years of post-JD experience , including experience at an elite law firm.
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Exceptional intellectual horsepower, attention to detail, and legal judgment.
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Demonstrated versatility across legal disciplines, with the ability to quickly develop expertise in unfamiliar areas.
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Experience with AI, data, or privacy matters, and strong commercial or transactional experience.
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A bias for action, comfort operating in ambiguity, and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing rigor.
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A business-oriented mindset and genuine excitement about helping build a fast-growing AI company.
Bonus points if you have
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Experience working in-house at a technology company, including through a secondment.
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Exposure to litigation, disputes, or complex regulatory matters.
Benefits
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Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
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Unlimited PTO.
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Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% coverage for most plans.
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FSA, HSA, and 401(k) access.
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Daily meals, snacks, and beverages at the office.
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Unlimited company-sponsored Barry's classes.
Visas
We sponsor international candidates across a range of visa types, including H-1B transfers, H-1B1, O-1, E-3, and TN, and we support STEM OPT. While we can’t guarantee any individual outcome, we’ve successfully sponsored teammates from all over the world.
About David AI
David AI is the first audio data research company. We bring an R&D approach to data–developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models. Our mission is to bring AI into the real world, and we believe audio is the gateway. Speech is versatile, accessible, and human—it fits naturally into everyday life. As audio AI advances and new use cases emerge, high-quality training data is the bottleneck. This is where David AI comes in.
David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less than a year, we’ve brought on most FAANG companies and AI labs as customers. We recently raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA, Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Amplify Partners, First Round Capital and other Tier 1 investors.
Our team is sharp, humble, ambitious, and tight-knit. We’re looking for the best research, engineering, product, and operations minds to join us on our mission to push the frontier of audio AI.
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