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title: 'Lead AI Infrastructure Counsel at fal'
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# Lead AI Infrastructure Counsel at fal

- **Company:** fal
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $325k–$375k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fal-ai/56bc9637-4729-4abc-8239-4a99e4cac66a

## Job description

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products. As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on.

## About this role

Behind every API call is compute, and we are rapidly expanding our own footprint: data centers, colocation, GPU capacity and the hardware inside it. These are some of the largest and most consequential contracts the company signs. We're hiring our first dedicated infrastructure lawyer to own them. You'll be the legal partner to our compute, data center and infrastructure teams. You'll negotiate deals worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, bring work in-house that currently goes to outside counsel, and build the playbooks we'll scale on.

## What you'll do

- Own hardware purchase and supply agreements for GPUs, servers, racks, networking and related equipment, including warranties, delivery, allocation of risk, and vendor financing terms.
- Lead negotiation of GPU capacity agreements with neoclouds, hyperscalers and traditional cloud providers, including commitment structures, pricing, SLAs and associated credits, delivery timelines, and liability caps.
- Support GPU-side referral, reseller and partnership agreements, and partner with our commercial counsel on sell-side compute terms.
- Partner with operations to build a scalable procurement function.
- Work day to day with capacity planning, sourcing, site acquisition and finance, so legal moves at the speed of the build-out.
- Build templates, negotiation playbooks and fallback positions for infrastructure agreements, and help shape how these deals are approved and tracked.

Qualifications/Nice to have:

- 8+ years of commercial legal experience, with meaningful time in-house or at a firm serving infrastructure clients.
- Recent, hands-on experience negotiating compute infrastructure deals: GPU or cloud capacity, data center or colocation, and hardware procurement. That experience might come from a hyperscaler, neocloud, AI lab, semiconductor or data center company.
- Fluency in the terms that matter here: capacity commitments, take-or-pay and minimum spend, SLAs and credits, power and real estate provisions, supply and delivery risk, and limitation of liability.
- Comfort running several high-value, time-sensitive negotiations at once with little process around you.
- Sound business judgment. You frame risk as "yes, and here's the exposure" and help the business make the call.
- Active bar membership in good standing (California preferred or able to register as in-house counsel).
- Real estate, energy or power procurement experience.
- Exposure to export controls, trade compliance or international supply chains.
- Experience building a function or playbooks from scratch at a high-growth company.

## Compensation

- $ 325,000- $375,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package

## U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION:

fal provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

## About fal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: fal provides a serverless generative media platform for developers, enabling lightning-fast inference for image, video, audio, and 3D AI models.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Burkay Gur, Gorkem Yurtseven

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Technology, Information, and Internet (Generative AI Infrastructure)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — developers, enterprises, and research labs building generative AI applications.
- **Mission**: Build the world’s first generative media platform for developers, enabling real-time AI content creation at scale.

## Products & Services
- **fal Inference Engine™**: A globally distributed serverless runtime optimized for large ML models on thousands of GPUs (H100, H200, B200). Up to 10x faster than alternatives, with 99.99% uptime and no cold starts.
- **Model Gallery**: A library of 1,000+ production-ready generative media models (image, video, audio, 3D) accessible via a unified API and SDKs.
- **Dedicated Compute Clusters**: On-demand or reserved GPU clusters for fine-tuning, training, or running custom models, with access to 1000s of Blackwell GPUs.
- **fal Compute**: Hourly GPU pricing for dedicated VMs, starting at $1.89/hr for high-end hardware.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (most recent round: $140M Series D)
- **Key Metric**: $140M Series D raised
- **Total Funding**: At least $163M across rounds (Pre-Seed $9M, Series A $14M, Series D $140M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew 246% year-over-year to ~84 employees
    - Trusted by 1.5M+ developers and leading enterprises
    - Powers AI features for public companies and hypergrowth startups
    - SOC 2 compliant and enterprise-ready

## Competitive Advantages
- **Serverless, globally distributed inference engine** purpose-built for generative media, eliminating GPU configuration and cold starts.
- **Massive scale**: Capable of handling 100M+ daily inference calls with enterprise-grade reliability.
- **Proprietary distributed data-feeding engine** and deep optimization for diffusion models.
- **Deep ecosystem**: 1,000+ pre-integrated models and strong partnerships with NVIDIA and top-tier VCs.
- **Developer-first experience**: Unified API, SDKs, and per-output pricing model reduce barriers to deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global infrastructure scaling**: Expanding GPU fleet across regions to meet accelerating demand for generative media.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Strengthening compliance (SOC 2, SSO), private endpoints, and dedicated support for large customers.
- **Generative Media Fund**: Investing in the next generation of companies building in the space.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, go-to-market, and operations to keep pace with growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: Fast-paced, high-agency environment focused on infrastructure and ML performance. Teams own critical systems from day one.
- **Work model**: Primarily in-person at downtown San Francisco office. Remote opportunities available for exceptional candidates.
- **Visa sponsorship**: Offered with relocation support to San Francisco.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, health/dental/vision insurance, regular team events and offsites.
- **Growth trajectory**: Company is scaling rapidly (headcount +246% YoY) with ambitious goals to 1000x usage, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Impact**: Work on the foundational platform powering generative AI for millions of users and leading enterprises.

## Sources
1. [fal.ai](https://fal.ai/)
2. [fal Careers](https://fal.ai/careers)
3. [fal Blog - Series D Announcement](https://blog.fal.ai/our-series-d-scaling-fal/)
4. [LinkedIn - fal](https://www.linkedin.com/company/features-and-labels)
5. [Greenhouse Jobs Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fal)

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