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# Senior Commercial Counsel at Rescale

- **Company:** Rescale
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$254k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rescale/e07bb926-5f84-4460-9906-2465b79498ba

## Job description

## WHY RESCALE

Rescale is the platform engineering and science teams use to run their hardest computational work. Companies in manufacturing, life sciences, and energy use us to run high-performance computing, modeling and simulation, and AI workloads on cloud and hybrid infrastructure, with the workflow tooling, data connectivity, and AI on top. We're moving from an HPC platform to a full digital engineering platform, and the open, infrastructure-agnostic design is a core reason customers pick us.

You'd join at a real inflection point. The product is expanding into agentic engineering, AI physics, and data intelligence, the enterprise customer base is growing, and the legal work that supports all of it is growing with it.

## THE ROLE

You'll serve as the primary point-of-contact for the GTM team and negotiate commercial contracts including customer agreements, DPAs, order forms, partner and reseller agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs. You'll run priority commercial work independently, carry the day-to-day volume, and know when to escalate.

As an early member of the legal team, you'll help establish the legal infrastructure to scale: playbooks and templates, contract automation, AI-assisted review and drafting, earlier product counseling, and more mature privacy and compliance operations. We are looking for a builder - someone willing to experiment and help build an AI native legal team.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Draft, review, and negotiate the commercial book: SaaS customer agreements, order forms, DPAs, partner and channel agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs.
- Run deals end to end as the legal point of contact, pulling in finance, security, product, and engineering when a deal needs them.
- Maintain the standard legal toolkit: MSA, DPA, NDA, and SOW templates, negotiation playbooks, and self-service paths so sales can move on routine paper without waiting on legal.
- Design and stand up AI and automation workflows for contract intake, review, and drafting.
- Train and equip GTM and cross-functional teams so good legal judgment is built into how the business operates from the start.

## WHAT YOU BRING

- A JD and active bar admission in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
- 5+ years of commercial transactional experience, in-house or at a firm, with real depth in SaaS and technology agreements. Time inside a software or technology company is a plus.
- A track record of running commercial deals independently and getting to signature without hand-holding.
- Strong legal operations instincts. You think about process, templates, and automation, not just the contract in front of you, and you've built or improved a contracting process before.
- Sound business judgment. You know which battles matter, you redline pragmatically, and you frame risk in terms the business can act on.
- Fluency with privacy requirements in commercial contracting, including DPAs, data-handling terms, and cross-border transfer obligations.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. You write clearly and translate legal issues into terms the business can act on.
- Comfort in a fast-moving, lean team where you own outcomes and figure things out.

Bonus: experience with AI products, counseling product and engineering teams, export control, or government and public sector contracting.

Rescale is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Rescale will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check. Here at Rescale, we are committed to being transparent in our policies around candidate privacy. For more details on the information Rescale collects in your application, please view the Rescale Applicant Privacy Policy https://rescale.com/company/legal/applicant-privacy-notice/ here.

## About Rescale

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rescale provides a cloud platform for high-performance computing (HPC), AI physics, and agentic engineering to accelerate product development and scientific discovery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funded, with multiple funding rounds including a $115M Series D in 2021; latest round a $50M Series E-1 in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Joris Poort (CEO) and Adam McKenzie (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Cloud Computing / High-Performance Computing (HPC) / AI Simulation and Engineering Software
- Target customers: B2B; Primarily large enterprises in aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, and manufacturing (R&D and engineering teams)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To empower anyone to accelerate innovation" and "deliver engineering and scientific breakthroughs that enrich humanity."

## Products & Services
- **Rescale High Performance Computing**: A cloud-based, elastic infrastructure platform that scales on demand, offering over 180 specialized and optimized hardware architectures and a library of pre-configured HPC and AI software. It automates setup and manages full-stack spend.
- **Rescale AI Physics**: An operating system that automates data preparation and model deployment, transforming existing simulation data into surrogate models for highly accurate predictions in milliseconds.
- **Rescale Agentic Engineering**: A unified, automated modeling and simulation environment that orchestrates the entire digital engineering stack. It uses AI agents to handle orchestration, monitoring, and first-pass analysis, freeing engineers for strategic decisions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; *Crunchbase* notes a total of ~$255M in funding as of mid-2025.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of approximately $255M (including a $115M Series D in Jan 2021 and a $50M Series E-1 in July 2024).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes investors like Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Nvidia, Microsoft, and Samsung. Key technology partners include Nvidia, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,250 customers worldwide; 1,000+ independently tested security controls; 65%+ average cost reduction for customers; claims of 78% reduced R&D cycle time and 4x-8x more design candidates explored; presence in global hubs (San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Seoul).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Platform Integration**: Uniquely combines managed HPC cloud infrastructure, AI-driven physics simulation, and agentic engineering automation into a single platform.
- **Hardware Agnostic, Optimized Architecture**: Provides access to over 180 specialized and optimized hardware architectures (including latest Nvidia GPUs and custom chips), which is rare for a SaaS-like platform.
- **Pre-Tuned Software Library**: Over 1,000 pre-configured and tuned HPC and AI software applications, drastically reducing setup time for engineering teams.
- **Security & Scale**: Independently tested and audited 1,000+ security controls, providing enterprise-grade governance and compliance for sensitive R&D workloads.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Simulation**: Aggressively moving beyond classic HPC batch jobs to "AI Physics" and "Agentic Engineering," aiming to make predictive simulation accessible faster and at larger scales.
- **Cloud-First Migration**: Helping large enterprises transition from on-premise HPC clusters to the public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) via cloud bursting and migration services.
- **Global Expansion**: Strengthening presence across APAC (Tokyo, Seoul) and EMEA (London) to capture international R&D talent and customers.
- **Enterprise Scale**: Maintaining a focus on large, complex R&D use cases in aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences.

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful Work**: Employees contribute to projects directly accelerating breakthroughs in supersonic travel, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
- **Distributed-First Philosophy**: The company operates a "Distributed-First Operating Model" allowing remote work from over 100 cities globally. Co-working spaces and hybrid hubs are available in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Seoul, and others.
- **Culture & Values ("GRIT")**: Emphasizes a "customer-first" mindset with four core values: Growth mindset, Run fast/own outcome, Iterate to innovate, and Team over self.
- **Total Rewards**: Competitive compensation (base, commission, equity), health coverage (medical/dental/vision/HSA), generous leave (parental, "fur-ternity"), flexible time off (including "Refresh Days" and "Flex Days"), and professional development funds.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Has employee resource groups (#OutScale, #SheScale) and Philanthropy 1% (donating 1% of work time to community service).
- **Hiring Process**: Described as human-led (no AI screening in initial resume review), with short video interviews and a focus on team fit.

## Sources
1. [Rescale About Page](https://rescale.com/company/about/)
2. [Rescale Careers Page](https://rescale.com/company/careers/)
3. [Rescale Product Page](https://rescale.com/)
4. [Rescale Open Roles (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rescale)
5. [Rescale LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rescale)

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