General Counsel

What We're Looking For

Odyssey is building general-purpose world models, causal, interactive, real-time simulations, and we're hiring our first in-house legal lead. We need a generalist General Counsel who can operate at the bleeding edge of AI, taking the full legal surface and building the legal scaffold from the ground up.

What You'll Do

• Own Odyssey's entire legal surface as the first internal counsel.
  • Corporate, commercial, employment, IP, data/privacy, and regulatory.
• Serve as the legal partner on compute and infrastructure deals, structuring and negotiating multi-cloud, and hyperscaler commitments alongside finance and leadership.
• Drive commercial, customer/enterprise, vendor, and partnership contracts at speed, building templates and playbooks so legal scales with the company.
• Manage employment, corporate, governance, and entity matters across the US, UK, and Switzerland, and support financing and board work.
• Decide what stays in-house versus external counsel, managing vendors to cut cost and turnaround times.
• Stand up the processes, tooling, and knowledge base for a legal function built from scratch.
• Ensure US employment compliance: payroll, leave laws, state registrations, I-9s, required trainings, and audits.

Who You Are

• A generalist with deep subject-matter expertise in bleeding-edge technology: AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or AI infrastructure / deep tech.
• Supported complex R&D partnership with long negotiation timelines, interfacing with the technical and commercial stakeholders with competence.
• Experienced with the mechanics of compute, infrastructure, or complex commercial deals (direct experience or close exposure).
• From a top-tier firm or in-house at a frontier/deep-tech company.
• In-house experience is not required, subject-matter expertise is.
• International in outlook, with cross-border legal experience.
• A 0→1 builder with high agency and clock speed who works as an advising authority alongside the leadership team.