# Commercial Counsel - Procurement

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000-$228,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

## About the Role

As a Commercial Counsel at xAI, you'll support procurement efforts for software, hardware, infrastructure, and services. Working closely with internal stakeholders, you’ll tackle complex agreements, ensure compliance, and streamline processes in a fast-paced environment. Expect to dive into strategic negotiations, balance legal and business priorities, and support xAI’s mission to advance AI-driven human scientific discovery.

This is an on-site role based out of our Austin, TX office with up to 25% travel required.

## Responsibilities

- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of procurement commercial deals, master service agreements, order forms, SOWs, POs, and NDAs.

- Partner closely with engineering, finance, accounting, and operations teams to align contracts with business needs.

- Support compliance processes.

- Create processes for efficient and scalable contracting.

- Pitch in for anything needed in the Legal department, even if it’s unfamiliar or not in your lane

## Basic Qualifications

- 4+ years of legal experience–ideally through a combination of experience at innovative technology companies and/or excellent law firms (startup experience a plus).

- Experience in commercial contracting, with a focus on procurement in tech, software, or infrastructure sectors.

- Proven track record of negotiating complex deals for software, hardware, data, infrastructure, or AI-related technologies.

- Tech-savvy with an understanding or keen interest in datacenters and emerging technologies like AI.

- Have a strong sense of ownership, be inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

- Willing to go the extra mile to support the SpaceXAI mission.

- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state

## Compensation and Benefits

$176,000-$228,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial contracting
- procurement
- tech-savvy
- AI
- datacenters
- emerging technologies
- legal experience
- JD

### Nice to have
- startup experience
- innovative technology companies
- excellent law firms

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