SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
About the Role
We are seeking a mission-driven and experienced Commercial Counsel to join our Legal Team. You will play a key role in growing the business, through closing high value deals and providing strategic advice to internal business stakeholders at all levels of the company.
What You'll Do
- Strategic Deal-Making: Drive high-value, complex commercial transactions, with a focus on life sciences customer agreements, third party collaborations, SaaS agreements, and technology partnerships. Your passion for all aspects of the deal process and working collaboratively across the company will be key to our success.
- Agile Contract Negotiation & Review: Navigate and lead negotiations with speed, precision, and strategic thinking. Draft and manage a wide variety of agreements, including pharmaceutical/biotech collaboration deals, B2B SaaS contracts, licensing agreements, partnership agreements and vendor contracts of all types.
- Innovative Problem-Solving: Work closely with cross-functional teams—including finance, business, general managers and others —to craft legal strategies that fuel growth while mitigating risks.
- Trusted Business Partner: Serve as a thought leader and legal advisor, proactively identifying opportunities and challenges in our commercial engagements.
- Building for Scale: As an early legal hire, you will play a key role in building a forward-thinking, business-savvy, dynamic legal team. The legal team will embody curiosity, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
About You
- You have a law degree from a top law school.
- Minimum of 5 years drafting and negotiating complex commercial deals. Contracts will range from B2B SaaS agreements with commercial customers, to channel and technology partnership agreement, to highly complex collaboration and development deals in life sciences transactions, particularly in biotech, pharma, and medical devices. You understand the nuances of IP licensing, supply agreements, complex industry partnerships, data agreements and data privacy requirements.
- Exceptional & Agile: You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments where smart, rapid decision-making is essential.
- Creative & Strategic: You don’t just negotiate contracts—you craft innovative, win-win solutions.
- Tech-Savvy Legal Expert: Ideally, you have experience with both SaaS and life sciences transactions, allowing you to bridge the gap between AI-driven solutions and scientific innovation.
- Mission-Driven & Impact-Oriented: Passionate about the intersection of AI, quantum technology, and life sciences, you are eager to drive groundbreaking advancements in the industry.
- Collaborative & High EQ: You know how to build relationships across diverse teams, translating complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Life sciences experience is strongly preferred.
- Intellectual property expertise is a plus.
- An undergraduate degree in STEM is valued, but not required.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $225-$290k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in AI and quantum technology.
We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.
What We Do
SandboxAQ is harnessing the exponential power of AI + Quantum (AQ) technology. The inspiration for SandboxAQ and some of the team originated at Alphabet Inc., becoming an independent entity in 2022. Our mission is to develop commercial products for financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, public sector, and other computationally-intensive industries.
Our team’s unique approach enables cross-pollination across a diverse range of fields, from physics, computer science, neuroscience, mathematics, cryptography, natural sciences, and more!
Our success comes from coalescing diverse talent to create an environment where experimental thinking and collaboration yield breakthrough physics + AI solutions. Join a culture where thought leadership, diverse talent, employee engagement, and technological impact will create the next tech uproar.
We are deeply committed to education as a means to advance quantum solutions and computing initiatives. We invest in future talent through internship programs, research papers, developer tools, textbooks, educational talks/events, and partnerships with universities/talent hubs to attract multi-disciplinary talent. Our hope is to inspire people from all walks of life to be prepared for the quantum era and encourage a path in STEM
