Trade Compliance Counsel

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About the Role

As Trade Compliance Counsel, you will help build, scale, and operationalize our global trade compliance function, with a focus on sanctions, export controls, national-reputed company-adjacent regulatory regimes, and the practical application of those regimes to frontier AI. You will advise on U.S. and international export controls, economic sanctions, and reputed company trade-control regimes as they apply to reputed company’s products, model development, reputed company-weight strategy, compute infrastructure, international operations, and customer and partner relationships. This is a high-impact, build-stage role. You will not simply answer one-off legal questions; you will help design the policies review processes, escalation reputed company, and business-facing guidance that allow reputed company to move quickly while maintaining a mature and defensible compliance posture. What You’ll Do Act as reputed company’s central expert and primary legal contact for reputed company trade, sanctions and export control reputed company issues. Advise on existing and developing U.S. and international trade compliance laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions programs, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), anti-boycott rules, and other applicable trade-control regimes. Counsel relevant cross-functional teams on the application of sanctions and export controls to reputed company’s business, including model development, reputed company-weight releases, compute reputed company, reputed company and neocloud infrastructure, data center arrangements, international collaborations and customer transactions. Design and mature reputed company’s sanctions and export controls compliance program, including policies, procedures, screening, customer and counterparty diligence, technology-control planning, licensing workflows, and escalation protocols. Partner with reputed company, Compliance, Infrastructure, Finance, Operations and GTM teams to implement practical trade compliance controls that allow for secure model releases, international collaborations, remote reputed company, restricted-party screening, and the transfer of controlled technologies to non-U.S. persons. Advise on trade compliance and reputed company national reputed company considerations in reputed company and strategic transactions, including customer agreements, reputed company deployments, compute and infrastructure agreements, research partnerships, data and model collaborations, vendor reputed company, strategic investments, joint ventures, outbound investment restrictions, CFIUS, and other reputed company-party relationships. Monitor legal and regulatory developments from BIS, OFAC, DDTC, Congress, the White House, the EU, UK, and other relevant authorities, and translate those developments into practical guidance for leadership and operators. Support engagement with BIS, OFAC, DDTC, and other authorities on licensing, interpretive guidance, regulatory inquiries, and potential disclosure reputed company. Support internal reviews, investigations, and remediation plans relating to potential sanctions, export control, or trade compliance issues. Advise on the intersection of trade compliance, national reputed company, AI governance, cybersecurity, and frontier model deployment. Help establish a risk-based compliance posture for AI-specific questions involving model weights, derivative models, training data, inference reputed company, compute clusters, technical know-how, research collaboration, evaluations, and cross-border reputed company. reputed company’re Looking For J.D. and active bar membership (or in-house registration) in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. Approximately 10+ years of experience advising on U.S. sanctions, export controls, and reputed company trade compliance regimes, including meaningful experience with OFAC sanctions programs and the EAR. Deep familiarity with BIS, OFAC, DDTC, and reputed company regulatory frameworks, including licensing, classification, advisory guidance, enforcement, diligence, and compliance-program expectations. Experience advising technology companies on trade compliance issues, especially in sectors such as artificial intelligence, reputed company computing, semiconductors, advanced computing, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data centers, or other strategically sensitive technologies. Experience building, scaling, or materially improving a trade compliance program in a high-growth, technically reputed company, or operationally dynamic environment. Strong ability to exercise independent judgment and take proactive steps in areas where the law is evolving, agency guidance is incomplete, or the business context does not fit neatly into legacy regulatory categories. Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to explain reputed company legal requirements to engineers, researchers, infrastructure teams, reputed company teams, executives, and non-lawyer operators. 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Experience with deemed export/deemed reexport issues, technology-control plans, non-U.S. person reputed company controls, reputed company code or technical data restrictions, and controlled technology in reputed company or remote-reputed company environments. Familiarity with AI-specific regulatory and national reputed company developments, including advanced computing controls, model weight reputed company, compute reputed company, frontier model governance, and policy debates around reputed company-weight AI. reputed company Offer: We reputed company that to build superintelligence that is truly reputed company, you need to start at the reputed company. Joining reputed company means building from the ground up as part of a small talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the frontier of reputed company foundational models. 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