Corporate Counsel

Surge AI is hiring a Corporate Counsel for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Surge AI.

Level's read on this job

Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions commercial contracts, corporate law and negotiation among its tools and skills.
Surge AI has 27 other open roles on Level.
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Corporate Counsel to manage commercial contracts, vendor agreements, and legal playbooks for an AI platform company.

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About Us

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence - curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation of AI. Our platform powers the most capable models in the world, in partnership with the AI models you use every day.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn’t just about scaling compute - it’s about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We’ve run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

As Corporate Counsel at Surge, you’ll handle the commercial contracts that keep our business moving. You’ll work with our Business Development and Growth teams on customer and vendor agreements, and with our General Counsel on everything that doesn’t fit a standard form. You’ll make it easier for the business to close deals quickly and safely.

This role is ideal for a contracts lawyer who likes being close to the business, wants to build a clean set of templates and playbooks, and wants room to grow into leading negotiations.

What You’ll Do

Manage our standard customer and vendor agreements, and keep our forms current.
Make the first round of comments on incoming contracts, and tell the business what matters and what doesn’t.
Partner with Business Development and Growth to implement new product and business ideas.
Design and maintain forms, templates, and playbooks, so routine agreements don’t need a lawyer every time.
Take on negotiations, with support at first (as needed) and more independence over time.
Work with our IP and Data Privacy Counsel and Labor Counsel on contract terms in their areas.
Help with other corporate and commercial questions as they come up.

What We’re Looking for

4+ years of experience as a lawyer focused on commercial contracts, at a law firm or in-house.
Strong drafting and a good eye for risk. You know which terms matter and which you can let go.
Experience with technology, SaaS, data, or services agreements.
A practical, business-minded approach. You give clear answers and help teams get to a yes where you can.
Comfortable owning a high volume of work and prioritizing without being told.
Interested in building forms and processes, not only working within them.
Genuinely curious about AI and the companies building it.

How we rate this

Corporate Counsel at Surge AI rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Corporate Counsel is an open job at Surge AI.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in United States - Remote and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 29, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Surge AI. Apply on Surge AI

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Tell me about a project where corporate law was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where negotiation was part of your work. What did you do?

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