Employment Counsel
Fireworks AI · San Mateo
Infrastructureremotesenior$355k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own employment and labor matters as foundational legal team member scaling fast.
- Build scalable employment policies for rapidly growing multi-state workforce.
- Support international expansion advising on global labor law compliance.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity in fast-growing startup
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
Ideal candidate
Pragmatic, low-ego builder who thrives in hypergrowth and partners closely with People teams. You balance risk with business velocity and use AI to work smarter while protecting a scaling workforce.
Requirements
- 9+ years of in-house employment and labor law experience
- JD and membership in at least one US state bar
- Prior startup experience, ideally in hypergrowth environment
- Track record of close partnership with HR and People Operations
- Familiarity with employee equity and compensation considerations
- Experience supporting international expansion and global employment laws
- Pragmatic build-from-scratch mindset balancing risk with business velocity
- AI-forward builder mindset using AI tools to streamline workflows
Lab profile
About Fireworks AI
Platform for specialized intelligence to build, train, and serve tailored AI models.
What they build
- Platform to build, train, and serve tailored AI models
- Hundreds of open models for production AI
- Text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal models
Known for
- Founded by team behind PyTorch
- Specialized intelligence tailored to customer data and workflows
- Production-grade AI for text, image, audio, and multimodal workloads
Key facts
- Backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, TCV, and Atreides
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