Corporate Counsel – Contracts

🕒 August 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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OKSI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1991

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $206.5k Grant - Opto-Knowledge Systems on 2024-01

Defense • Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence

OKSI is a defense- and aerospace-focused sensor and autonomy company that develops electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) seekers, precision guidance systems, GPS-denied navigation (e. g. , OMNInav), and machine-learning-enhanced hardware and software. For 35+ years the company has produced advanced computer-vision and AI/ML solutions, modeling & simulation tools, and unique sensor packages for high-speed events, hypersonics, combustion diagnostics, space and earth observation, and environmental sensing. OKSI primarily serves government and defense customers, holding 450+ government contracts and delivering capabilities for autonomy, precision guidance, and environmental monitoring.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, revise, and negotiate customer, vendor, and supplier agreements, services and consulting agreements, teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, SOWs, and amendments • Serve as the primary legal point of contact for NDAs/MNDAs and manage matters from intake through signature using approved forms and fallback positions • Manage assigned legal matters from intake through resolution, including reviewing and negotiating counterparty paper and developing practical positions and fallbacks • Maintain and improve templates, fallback language, and playbooks • Provide day-to-day legal support on routine corporate governance, employment questions, IP and data rights, data privacy, vendor disputes, internal policy, and proposal review • Identify terms outside OKSI's standard positions and escalate novel, strategic, or unusually complex matters to the fractional General Counsel with a clear explanation and recommended position • Review routine government contracts, subcontracts, and flowdowns, handling ordinary contract issues and identifying matters requiring specialized government-contract or compliance review • Collaborate with the Contracts Administrator and teams across compliance, program management, procurement, finance, HR, engineering, and BD

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school • Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction • Meaningful hands-on experience drafting, redlining, and negotiating commercial agreements, including substantial work on counterparty paper • Demonstrated experience negotiating indemnity, limitation of liability, IP and licensing, confidentiality, warranties, termination, and dispute provisions • Strong contract drafting, legal research, analytical, and issue-spotting skills • Pragmatic, business-oriented judgment and ability to explain legal risk, options, and recommendations in plain English • Ability to manage a high volume of agreements and competing priorities independently • Strong attention to detail and sound judgment on when to decide, ask, or escalate • Typically 3–10 years of relevant legal experience, with meaningful hands-on commercial contracts or transactional experience • Must have, or be eligible to obtain and maintain, a U.S. Department of Defense Secret security clearance; obtaining and maintaining it is a condition of employment • Must meet U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements: U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations • Preferred: in-house experience, federal government contracts, FAR/DFARS, defense industry, IP and data rights, SBIR/STTR, CUI, cybersecurity, export-related terms, contract lifecycle management, e-signature, or legal operations tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage fully paid by the employer for employees • Three weeks of vacation to start • Automatic company contribution to 401K – 5% of earned wages (no matching required) • Educational assistance and professional development opportunities