Legal Counsel

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Applied Computing

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Energy

🤝 B2B

Artificial Intelligence • Energy • B2B

Applied Computing is an artificial intelligence company that builds physics‑grounded foundational models for energy and industrial operations. Its flagship product, Orbital, connects to plant DCS, historians and LIMS to monitor thousands of sensors in real time, forecast trends, detect anomalies, recommend optimal set‑points across competing objectives, and surface early warnings while enforcing physical constraints (mass and energy balances, reaction kinetics). Applied Computing combines time‑series models, physics‑based modeling and a language model trained on chemical engineering and petrochemical knowledge to produce explainable, auditable insights for oil & gas, refining and chemical plants. The company partners with industry firms (e. g. , KBR, Wipro) and has been recognized for AI innovation in the energy sector.

📋 Description

• Own all legal matters across the business as the first legal hire • Partner with leadership, sales, product, people, and operations to enable fast, sustainable growth • Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of enterprise SaaS agreements, including MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, partnership agreements, and security addenda • Support complex, high-value customer negotiations and shorten deal cycles • Develop and maintain contract templates, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks • Advise on pricing structures, licensing models, and commercial risk allocation • Own commercial contracts including NDAs, supplier and vendor terms, reseller and channel agreements, consultancy and services agreements, IP assignments, and procurement • Own company secretarial matters, statutory registers, Companies House filings, board and shareholder resolutions, minutes, and the share register • Support board and investor matters, fundraising and due diligence, M&A, joint ventures, and strategic partnership structuring • Support international expansion, including entity setup, intercompany agreements, and transfer pricing documentation • Oversee employment, contractor, consultancy, and offer documentation across UK and international hires • Advise on restructures, grievances, exits, settlement agreements, employment policies, right to work, sponsorship, visas, and immigration • Handle confidentiality, IP assignment, and restrictive covenant provisions • Provide legal guidance on AI product development, data usage, model deployment, model weights, training, inference, outputs, IP, liability, privacy, and data governance • Advise on UK and EU data protection laws, including GDPR and UK GDPR • Track the EU AI Act and emerging AI regulation and advise on export controls • Establish scalable legal processes, tools, documentation, internal guidance, and use of external counsel • Identify key legal and regulatory risks and ensure compliance with applicable laws and industry standards

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent common law jurisdiction) • 5–10 years’ PQE • Strong experience in enterprise SaaS contracting (essential) • Experience with AI companies (essential) • Practical corporate experience covering company secretarial, board and investor matters, and supporting fundraising or transactions • Working knowledge of UK employment law, or a clear track record of picking up unfamiliar areas quickly with external counsel support • Solid grounding in data protection and technology law • Good understanding of export controls • Comfortable engaging with how AI models are built and served, including model weights, training versus inference, and fine-tuning on customer data • Ability to identify commercial and IP risk and translate it into contract terms • Experience working with high-growth startups is highly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, benefits and equity • Full ownership of the legal function as the first legal hire • Direct impact on revenue through enterprise deal support • Genuine breadth across commercial, corporate, employment and AI regulation in a single role • Work at the intersection of AI, data, and enterprise software