Founding Legal Counsel

About Build AI

Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.

We're hiring a Founding Legal Counsel to own the legal architecture behind Build's global operations. The role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and is Build's first in-house legal hire.

Build designs and manufactures its own hardware, collects data inside working factories and job sites across a growing number of countries, and pays a distributed network of partners and individual collectors ry new country brings the same stack of questions at once: how fast we can operate before we need an entity, what consent has to look like for the people we record, whether the data can leave the country and on what paper, how collectors and partners are structured, and how they get paid without the banks shutting us down.

Today those questions are answered country by country, by outside counsel across several firms, with no one inside the company owning the design.

You will own that design. You will build the consent, data-transfer, entity, and contracting architecture that has to work in twenty countries rather than be rebuilt in each one, run the outside counsel network instead of being routed by it, and paper the commercial agreements on both sides of the business — the partners who collect the data and the customers who license it.

Securities and financing, export controls, national security, tax, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory matters will continue to sit with outside specialist counsel. You will own those relationships and translate that advice into action rather than being the specialist yourself.

You will be hands-on from day one, you will do most of the work yourself before you hire anyone — leveraging AI seamlessly and exhaustively — and you will build the legal infrastructure while the company grows from a founding team to thousands across multiple continents.

Your job is to help Build move quickly without taking risks we don't understand.

• Own the legal path into new countries, including entities, EORs, contractors, partners, payments, and local regulatory requirements
• Build and own the global consent, privacy, data-transfer, retention, and data-provenance framework
• Draft and negotiate customer, partner, vendor, manufacturing, employment, consulting, and other commercial agreements
• Own international entity governance, maintenance, statutory obligations, intercompany arrangements, and compliance calendars
• Identify and manage regulatory risk across privacy, AI/data, foreign investment, payments, foreign ownership, and international operations
• Run diligence on Build's data rights and provenance for customers, regulators, investors, and acquirers
• Select and manage outside counsel globally, including scope, fees, quality, and translating specialist advice into action
• Partner with Operations, Data Scaling, Finance, Engineering, and Manufacturing to structure new markets, products, and operating models
• Make risk legible and give clear recommendations that help the business move quickly without taking risks it doesn't understand

• JD and active bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction, with 6+ years of relevant experience including significant in-house time at a startup or rapidly growing technology company
• Owned legal work for a company operating across multiple countries — you have stood up operations in markets you had not worked in before, and dealt with what went wrong after launch
• Deep, practical data privacy experience: consent architecture,…