Legal Counsel, DeepMind

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.
  

Qualifications

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.