Commercial and IP Counsel

Luma
Redwood City
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 250,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Judgment","Communication","Risk balancing","Process-building","Collaboration"]

Own commercial contracting and intellectual property strategy for API, enterprise, and compute/infrastructure deals as Luma trains and ships frontier multimodal models. Partner with sales to negotiate agreements, build scalable contracting infrastructure, and structure data/content and open-source compliance. Advise on AI-specific IP and data rights across training, weights, and output risks, including privacy DPAs, DMCA takedowns, and emerging AI regulations.

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Luma
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Commercial and IP Counsel

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Job Summary

Own commercial contracting and intellectual property strategy for API, enterprise, and compute/infrastructure deals as Luma trains and ships frontier multimodal models. Partner with sales to negotiate agreements, build scalable contracting infrastructure, and structure data/content and open-source compliance. Advise on AI-specific IP and data rights across training, weights, and output risks, including privacy DPAs, DMCA takedowns, and emerging AI regulations.
Location: Redwood City
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with sales to draft, negotiate, and close API and enterprise agreements.
  • •Build scalable contracting infrastructure including templates, negotiation playbooks, risk-tiering, and contract lifecycle processes.
  • •Negotiate compute and infrastructure agreements with cloud and GPU providers and technology partners (model hosting, API-reseller, co-development).
  • •Structure and negotiate data licensing and content-partnership agreements for training and fine-tuning datasets, including scope, exclusivity, attribution, and downstream rights.
  • •Advise on AI-specific IP and data-rights issues across training methods/weights, open-weight releases, open-source compliance, and output-side IP risk including DMCA and takedown processes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
  • •5+ years across law firm and in-house work, with substantial time on technology commercial transactions and IP.
  • •Proven ability negotiating SaaS/API agreements, data licensing, and cloud/compute or infrastructure contracts with minimal supervision.
  • •Technical fluency with how generative AI models are built and deployed (training data pipelines, fine-tuning/distillation, weights/checkpoints, inference serving) sufficient to spot and structure legal issues.
  • •Substantive experience with AI IP issues including copyright/training-data rights, output ownership and infringement risk, open-source/open-weight model licensing, and patentability of ML techniques.
Experience:5+ yearsGenerative AIMultimodal AIFrontier modelsSaaSData licensingOpen-source
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:JudgmentCommunicationRisk balancingProcess-buildingCollaboration
Tech Stack:SaaSAPICloudGPUGenerative AIInference

Company Brief

Luma
Develops AI-powered tools for capturing, editing, and rendering high-quality 3D scenes from photos and videos, enabling creators to generate photorealistic 3D assets and spatial experiences.
Industry: AR/VR & Spatial Computing
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