Deputy General Counsel

Legal    ·    Fremont, California    ·   Full time

Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. We are building a team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about making a world-changing impact.

As our Deputy General Counsel, you’ll be responsible for drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial arrangements with vendors and partners. You’ll also be providing sound legal advice to stakeholders with respect to commercial terms, business operations, corporate transactions, marketing content and product development. This attorney will report to the General Counsel.

As an early team member, you will contribute to building a legal department from the ground up and setting the culture for the team. You will also have an opportunity to develop or expand your legal knowledge and skills, including the healthcare regulatory area. You’ll need to be proactive and engaged, able to work well cross-functionally both internally and externally, excited about revolutionizing biotechnology/medical devices, and ready to roll up your sleeves and dig into tough legal problems to reach a creative solution.

About you:

• Draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial arrangements across all areas of the business.
• Support continuous improvements of forms, policies, and processes to help streamline, simplify, and automate the procurement contracting processes.
• Work closely with our product and engineering teams to provide advice on legal issues during development of new products and features.
• Advise on a wide range of legal and healthcare regulatory issues with an eye for collaborative problem solving.
• Lead and take charge of special legal projects from start to finish.
• Remain up-to-date on relevant healthcare laws, consumer protection, advertising, IP, and privacy laws and regulations to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound compliance advice.
• Manage our contracts database while creating and updating our legal agreements forms.
• Think ahead, see around corners, and help to prepare for legal issues that may arise in the future; potting issues is nice, but preventing and solving problems is better.

Key qualifications:

• A J.D. and membership with at least one state bar (preferably California).
• A minimum of 5 years of legal practice. Some in-house tech experience is highly preferred, ideally at a biotechnology, medical device, or hardware company.
• The ability to provide clear, concise legal advice, and work effectively cross-functionally to drive resolutions and closure.
• A successful track record of managing contract negotiations drafting from start to finish.
• Familiarity with legal issues affecting the biomedical technology space.
• Comfortable embracing stretch assignments and new subject areas.
• Confident and adept at balancing legal risk and business needs.
• Detail-oriented without losing sight of the big picture.
• Works well in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.

What we offer:

• An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and the most talented experts from different fields.
• Growth potential. We rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact.
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan; parental leave.
• Flexible time off + paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Meals provided.

Neuralink provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.