Head of Legal

About this role

Overview

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.

About the Role

We're looking for our first in-house legal hire to give Inferact greater leverage across a growing set of legal workstreams. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced technology lawyer who can personally execute on commercial agreements while serving as the primary point person for all legal matters at the company.

This hire will provide immediate in-house legal capacity and, in short order, build out and lead Inferact's legal function. You will own key matters internally, coordinate complex workstreams with outside counsel, maintain cross-functional alignment across the organization, and help the company navigate frontier questions in open source LLM inference space. You will work closely with leadership, product, engineering, GTM, and operations teams.

Skills and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• J.D. or equivalent, with active bar admission and good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
• 6+ years of legal experience at a technology company, infrastructure or AI business, or a top law firm advising sophisticated tech clients. Prior GC experience is not required.
• Experience building or scaling a legal function from 0 to 1, or operating as the sole or first lawyer supporting a fast-growing company.
• Strong commercial contracting experience: able to independently draft, negotiate, and close enterprise customer, cloud and compute vendor, partnership, and technology licensing agreements.
• Experience managing outside counsel efficiently, with clear internal ownership and a bias toward keeping matters moving.
• Hands-on execution mindset—comfortable personally drafting, reviewing, and negotiating in a technically comple...