Government Contracts and Compliance Counsel

🕒 October 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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HavocAI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2024-09

Logistics • Manufacturing • Defense

HavocAI is a developer of collaborative autonomy for maritime operations, offering a modular software and vehicle stack that enables fleets of autonomous maritime systems to perform contested logistics, sensor fusion and tracking, domain awareness, and escort-and-engage missions. Their product suite includes onboard autonomy (HAVOC OS), scalable communications (HAVOC CLOUD), and a handheld operator interface (HAVOC CONTROL), marketed as a single solution for theater-scaled security and rapid deployment. HavocAI emphasizes real-time, team-led autonomous solutions that run across diverse environments and supports both hardware (autonomous vessels) and software deployment.

📋 Description

• Provide legal counsel across the lifecycle of U.S. Government contracts, subcontracts, grants, OTAs, and other government agreements. • Review, draft, and negotiate prime contracts, subcontracts, teaming agreements, NDAs, vendor agreements, and other commercial and government-facing agreements. • Advise on FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, flow-down requirements, representations and certifications, and government contracting obligations. • Partner with Contracts, Finance, Strategy, and program teams on solicitations, proposals, negotiations, contract modifications, and performance issues. • Advise on contract interpretation, changes, disputes, terminations, intellectual property rights, technical data rights, and government rights in software. • Support diligence and risk analysis associated with new programs, customers, partners, and contracting vehicles. • Develop, implement, and continuously improve the government contracting compliance program. • Provide practical guidance on procurement integrity, organizational conflicts of interest, ethics, mandatory disclosures, lobbying restrictions, gifts and gratuities, and other federal contracting requirements. • Advise on business systems and compliance requirements applicable to government contractors, including accounting, purchasing, estimating, property management, and related controls. • Partner with Finance and Contracts on cost and pricing requirements, timekeeping, allowable costs, indirect costs, and audit readiness. • Support internal compliance reviews, risk assessments, investigations, and corrective actions. • Monitor regulatory developments affecting defense contractors and translate new requirements into actionable guidance. • Develop policies, procedures, training, and internal controls. • Partner on ITAR, EAR, export controls, sanctions, and foreign-person access considerations. • Advise on international business, foreign partners, technical data, and defense-related products and services. • Coordinate where government contracting requirements intersect with export controls, security requirements, or personnel considerations. • Serve as a trusted legal advisor to executives and business leaders. • Work with teams during capture, proposal, contracting, and program decisions. • Balance legal and compliance requirements with operational realities and identify practical paths forward. • Partner with outside counsel and specialized advisors. • Help build scalable legal and compliance processes for a rapidly growing defense technology company.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. • 7+ years of relevant legal experience, with significant experience in U.S. Government contracting and federal procurement law. • Strong working knowledge of the FAR and DFARS and experience interpreting and applying government contract requirements. • Experience advising defense contractors, aerospace companies, technology companies, government agencies, or organizations operating within the Defense Industrial Base. • Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating government contracts, subcontracts, teaming agreements, and related agreements. • Experience advising on government contracting compliance programs and internal controls. • Strong understanding of government contract intellectual property and technical data considerations. • Ability to independently analyze complex regulatory issues and translate them into clear, actionable business guidance. • Excellent judgment, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills. • Ability to manage multiple high-priority matters simultaneously and operate effectively with ambiguity and evolving requirements. • High degree of ownership, discretion, and integrity. • U.S. Citizenship required. • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. • Preferred: Experience working directly within a defense technology, aerospace, autonomous systems, robotics, or high-growth government contractor. • Preferred: Experience with Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements and non-traditional defense acquisition pathways. • Preferred: Experience advising on ITAR, EAR, export controls, and international defense business. • Preferred: Knowledge of government contract cost accounting, CAS, TINA/Truthful Cost or Pricing Data requirements, DCAA audits, and DCMA processes. • Preferred: Experience with government rights in technical data and computer software, including SBIR/STTR data rights. • Preferred: Familiarity with cybersecurity and government contractor requirements, including CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, and applicable DFARS cybersecurity clauses. • Preferred: Experience supporting internal investigations, mandatory disclosures, government audits, or regulatory inquiries. • Preferred: Prior in-house experience within a rapidly scaling organization. • Preferred: Active or previously held DoD security clearance.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health Insurance • Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families • Life Insurance (Employer Paid) • Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching) • Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum • Equity Package • Work / Home Office Stipend • Global Entry • 16 Week Paid Parental Leave • Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend • Offers Bonus

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