Assistant General Counsel, Infrastructure & Compute

About this role

Baseten is seeking an Assistant General Counsel to lead legal strategy for their compute and infrastructure supply chain, negotiating GPU, cloud capacity, and datacenter agreements that balance flexibility, cost, and operational resilience. You'll own the inbound vendor contracting surface while supporting broader legal initiatives and working cross-functionally with engineering, finance, and security teams.

What you'll do

• Negotiate GPU compute, cloud capacity, and infrastructure services agreements to build flexibility and enforceable SLAs
• Lead colocation, power, datacenter, and network contracting with focus on operational resilience terms
• Map vendor concentration risk and dependencies, partnering with Finance and Security on structural improvements
• Manage legal dimensions of strategic infrastructure relationships and multi-role vendor arrangements
• Build template libraries, SLA-credit playbooks, and intake workflows for procurement team scale
• Support customer deals, M&A diligence, and strategic partnerships as needed

What they're looking for

• Technology transactions with 8+ years buy-side experience
• Compute, cloud, hardware supply chain, and datacenter contracting expertise
• SLA and availability constructs, capacity and route diversity fluency
• High-volume, template-driven vendor contracting discipline
• Risk assessment for availability, cost, and operational flexibility impact
• Cross-functional communication with engineering, infrastructure, and finance teams
• Export and trade control compliance application
• AI tooling and systems proficiency