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title: 'Corporate Counsel at Hyperbolic Labs'
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# Corporate Counsel at Hyperbolic Labs

- **Company:** Hyperbolic Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperbolic/209b6140-aaf0-490e-a0f6-ccbcd442980b

## Job description

## Who We Are

Hyperbolic Labs is on a mission to democratize AI by breaking down the barriers to computing power with our Open-Access AI Cloud. By making better use of idle computing resources across the globe, we offer an innovative GPU marketplace and AI inference service that promise affordability and accessibility for all. As pioneers at the intersection of AI and open-source technology, we believe in an open future where AI innovation is limited only by imagination, not by access to resources. We're looking for forward-thinking individuals who share our passion for making AI universally accessible, secure, and affordable. Join us in building a platform that empowers innovators everywhere to turn their visionary AI projects into reality.

## About the Role

Hyperbolic is seeking a high-impact, commercially minded in-house legal counsel to help shape the legal and commercial foundation of our AI infrastructure business. This is a highly visible role working directly with our founders and leadership team on some of the company’s most important transactions. You will own the agreements through which Hyperbolic secures GPU capacity, brings strategic partners onto its platform, and serves its customers. A central part of your mandate will be aligning MSAs with neocloud providers and customers to deliver a consistently high quality of service while protecting Hyperbolic from legal, operational, and financial risk. Your work will directly influence how we scale, enter new markets, and build durable relationships across the AI infrastructure ecosystem.

## What You Will Do

- Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs with neoclouds and customers, matching terms across capacity, pricing, timeline, performance, service levels, security, liability, and termination.
- Design a wide range of innovative commercial agreements, including creative deal structures with neoclouds, channel partners, market makers, vendors, and technology providers.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Operations to ensure contractual commitments are technically achievable and financially supportable.
- Navigate an evolving regulatory and compliance landscape, including AI sales restrictions, potential CFTC oversight, SOC 2 & GDPR requirements, and financial-services and data-privacy laws across jurisdictions.
- Lead the company’s response to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries, providing clear and decisive counsel under pressure.
- Advise on corporate governance, fundraising, debt and equity financings, intellectual property protection, and other strategic corporate matters.
- Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval processes, and systems for tracking contractual obligations and risk.
- Manage outside counsel and the legal budget.

## Who You Are

- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including commercial technology transactions and meaningful in-house experience.
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise customer MSAs.
- Strong understanding of committed capacity, usage-based pricing, SLAs, security obligations, indemnities, liability caps, and termination economics.
- Able to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations.
- Commercial, collaborative, and comfortable making sound decisions in a fast-moving environment.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience at a neocloud, GPU cloud, public-cloud provider, data-center operator, high-performance computing company, or infrastructure marketplace.
- Experience with channel, reseller, marketplace, referral, capacity-sharing, or other non-standard commercial arrangements.
- Experience supporting an early-stage company across commercial, corporate, regulatory, and product matters.

Hyperbolic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Hyperbolic Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hyperbolic provides an open-access cloud platform offering affordable, on-demand GPU compute and AI inference services for developers, researchers, and AI teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also listed as Irvine, California, per CB Insights) [LinkedIn], [CB Insights]
- **Founded**: 2022 [CB Insights]
- **Founders**: Jasper Zhang (CEO) and Yuchen Jin (CTO, departed April 2026) [hyperbolic.ai/about], [LinkedIn]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, GPU-as-a-Service
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI startups, ML engineers, academic researchers, enterprise AI teams, and individual developers.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build the world's most accessible and comprehensive AI platform, empowering developers with affordable, seamless access to meet all their AI needs in one unified platform.” [hyperbolic.ai/about]

## Products & Services
- **On-Demand GPU Clusters**: Rent H100/H200 GPUs in under one minute with no sales calls or quota limits. Pay-as-you-go, scale up/down as needed. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Reserved Clusters**: Guaranteed, isolated capacity for long-term workloads at discounted prepaid pricing. Ideal for 24/7 inference or large training jobs. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Dedicated Endpoints**: Single-tenant GPU instances with private endpoints for high-throughput inference (100K+ tokens/min) and full control. Hourly pricing. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Serverless Inference API**: OpenAI-compatible API to run models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, SDXL, Flux, etc. Swap base URL and key with minimal code changes. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **AI Consulting Services**: Engineering support for setup, scaling, sharding, and debugging across training, fine-tuning, and inference. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $19.73M (Series A: $12M in December 2024; Seed: $7M in July 2024; additional earlier rounds) [LinkedIn], [CB Insights]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Variant, Polychain Capital, Chapter One, Faction, Bankless Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, and 29+ others. [CB Insights]
- **Growth Signals**: 200,000+ builders on the platform; claims 3–10x less expensive than inference competitors; presence in 5 countries (US, Singapore, Vietnam, France, South Korea). [hyperbolic.ai], [LinkedIn]
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $19.73M; no public revenue data.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cost leadership**: 3–10x cheaper than competing inference providers, with no hidden fees or long-term commitments. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Zero quota limits**: No artificial caps on GPU usage – provision instantly. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Unique model support**: Only platform serving Llama-3.1-405B-Base in BF16 (high-precision) and FP8 (ultra-fast inference). Endorsed by Andrej Karpathy. [hyperbolic.ai]
- **Open-access ethos**: Focus on democratizing compute by aggregating underutilized GPUs (consumer-grade and data center), enabling AI development without vendor lock-in. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Speed**: Deploy a cluster in under one minute; pay with credit card or crypto. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Strategic Focus
- **Scalability & automation**: Building the most automated platform to eliminate sales calls and friction. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Open ecosystem**: Partnering with top research labs, institutions, and major AI/ML teams to advance open-source AI and open-access compute. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Expanding model variety**: Continuously adding new state-of-the-art models and inference optimizations. [hyperbolic.ai]

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “open access, collaboration, innovation, and automation.” Founding story rooted in removing barriers for developers and researchers. [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Team**: Small (17 employees as of mid-2026), with a flat structure and hands-on roles. Engineering-centric (5 technical staff) plus growing GTM and product teams. [LinkedIn]
- **Remote/Hybrid**: HQ in San Francisco; employees across 5 countries – likely offers remote flexibility, though policy not explicitly stated. [LinkedIn]
- **Notable perks**: Work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure; direct impact on product; collaboration with top AI labs; use of latest GPUs (H100/H200). [hyperbolic.ai/about]
- **Caution**: Recent high-profile departures (co-founder/CTO Yuchen Jin, Head of Business Operations, and a founding AI engineer in April 2026) – candidates should investigate stability and leadership continuity. [LinkedIn]

## Sources
1. [Hyperbolic – Official Website](https://www.hyperbolic.ai/)
2. [Hyperbolic – About Page](https://www.hyperbolic.ai/about)
3. [Hyperbolic – LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperbolic-labs)
4. [Hyperbolic Labs – CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hyperbolic-labs)
5. [Hyperbolic – Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperbolic)

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