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title: 'Commercial Counsel at Together AI'
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# Commercial Counsel at Together AI

- **Company:** Together AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5182998007

## Job description

## About the Role

Together AI is looking for a Commercial Counsel to support the deals that drive our growth. You’ll work alongside the Sales, Partnerships, Finance, Product, and Security teams as the legal partner who helps each of them move quickly while keeping risk in view.

What we sell sits at the core of our customers’ own products, so our commercial deals call for a real understanding of how the technology works. The terms we agree to with customers and partners shape our relationships and our business for years. This role suits a lawyer who wants to be a true business partner to a fast-moving sales organization, rather than working within a narrow contracts lane.

## Responsibilities

Sales

- Serve as the legal point of contact for Sales across enterprise customer deals, managing commercial agreements including master agreements, order forms, data processing terms, security exhibits, and NDAs.
- Negotiate customer contracts end to end, partnering closely with Sales, Security, Product, and Finance to resolve issues quickly and keep deals moving through the pipeline.
- Advise Sales on risk, contract positions, and fallback terms, and manage escalations on non-standard requests such as custom SLAs, data protection obligations, and liability and indemnity terms.
- Build the templates, playbooks, and scalable workflows that make Sales deals repeatable, including standard forms, negotiation playbooks, and clear escalation paths.

Partnerships

- Structure and negotiate go-to-market and partnership deals, including collaboration, reseller, licensing, and co-sell arrangements.
- Work with Sales, Partnerships, and Product to align partner terms with business goals, customer commitments, and company risk posture.
- Develop standard partnership templates and default negotiating positions so routine partner deals can move quickly and consistently.

## Requirements

- A JD and an active bar license in good standing
- At least 5 years in commercial and technology transactions, including substantial in-house time at an infrastructure company
- Experience supporting deals for purchasing compute and critical infrastructure, partner and strategic alliances agreements, and enterprise commercial deals
- A working command of data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) and regulatory (EU AI Act, EU Data Act, DORA) regimes and security terms (data processing agreements, security addenda)
- Familiarity with export controls and the regulatory requirements that apply to partners and counterparties, such as the FCPA and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption regimes
- A plain-spoken style that makes legal and technical points accessible to non-lawyers
- Comfort working independently in a small, fast-moving legal team, with sound instincts for what to own, what to escalate, and when to bring in specialized outside counsel
- Desire for learning and building with AI tools so you can operate self-sufficiently and at speed

## About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

## Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200-230K + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Application Policy

Please read each role carefully and apply to the position best suited to you. Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period, and applications beyond that limit will be automatically rejected. You may apply to additional roles 90 days after your last application.

## Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Please see our privacy policy athttps://www.together.ai/privacy

## About Together AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, a full-stack platform for production AI that provides inference, fine-tuning, and GPU compute powered by cutting-edge systems research.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Vipul Ved Prakash (CEO), Ce Zhang (CTO), Tri Dao (Chief Scientist), Chris Ré, Percy Liang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI-native startups (e.g., Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs), enterprise SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato), and AI researchers.
- **Mission**: “Significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models” — with a commitment to open and transparent AI development.

## Products & Services
- **Serverless Inference**: Fast on-demand inference for open-source models with no infrastructure management.
- **Batch Inference**: Asynchronous processing of massive workloads (up to 30B tokens per model) at reduced cost.
- **Dedicated Model Inference**: Deploy models on dedicated GPU infrastructure for speed and control.
- **Dedicated Container Inference**: GPU infrastructure optimized for generative media (video, audio, image).
- **Fine-Tuning**: Fine-tune open-source models using latest research techniques (improves accuracy, reduces hallucinations).
- **Accelerated Compute**: Self-serve instant clusters to thousands of GPUs, optimized with Together Kernel Collection.
- **Model Shaping**: Tools to accelerate inference, model shaping, and pre-training.
- **Managed Storage**: High-performance object storage and parallel filesystems with zero egress fees.
- **Sandbox**: Fast, secure code sandboxes for AI app/agent development environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; recent Series C reportedly doubled valuation (amount undisclosed) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $1.334B (including $800M Series C announced in mid-2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco), and 29+ others across rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 91% YoY to ~280 employees [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
  - Acquired CodeSandbox (Dec 2024) and Refuel.AI (May 2025)
  - Customers include Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, Cartesia, Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato
  - Published nine papers at ICML 2026; open-sourced ParallelKernelBench

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack AI platform** covering inference, fine-tuning, compute, storage, and sandboxes — all integrated.
- **World-class research team** co-designing algorithms, kernels, and hardware (e.g., Tri Dao, co-inventor of FlashAttention).
- **Open-source commitment** and contributions (models, datasets, research) build developer trust and ecosystem lock-in.
- **Cost performance**: Claims 2x faster inference and 60% lower cost vs. alternatives through research-driven optimizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate the shift to open-source AI by making it economically viable at scale.
- Continue investing in systems research (GPU programming, kernel optimization, model shaping) to improve performance and cost.
- Expand enterprise adoption through dedicated deployments and partnerships.
- Grow the platform’s capabilities (e.g., managed storage, sandboxes) to reduce friction for AI-native builders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Do more with less,” “Open and responsible development,” “Empower innovation,” and “Optimizers” — a research-driven, mission-oriented environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily office-based in San Francisco (251 Rhode Island Street) with employees across 16 countries. Office perks include lunch, dinner, snacks, parking/transit stipends, and relocation support.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, 401K matching, health/dental/vision insurance, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, life and disability protection.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep focus on systems research and open-source; engineers work alongside leading AI researchers (e.g., Tri Dao, Ce Zhang). Talent sourced from Apple, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Stanford AI Lab.
- **Career Growth**: 53 active job postings (as of mid-2026); roles span ML engineering, platform engineering, research, and go-to-market. High growth trajectory offers rapid advancement.

## Sources
1. [together.ai/about-us](https://www.together.ai/about-us)
2. [together.ai/](https://www.together.ai/)
3. [together.ai/careers](https://www.together.ai/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/together-4](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)

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