Member of Legal Staff - Contracts

About Mavria

Mavria’s mission is to build the industrial capacity America needs to lead in AI. We believe that sustaining America’s AI leadership requires an unprecedented expansion of power, manufacturing, supply chains and physical infrastructure.

Our founders are serial entrepreneurs who met at the U.S. Department of Energy, working on some of the country’s hardest energy and infrastructure projects. There, they saw a widening gap: AI labs and cloud providers were racing to scale compute, while the infrastructure underneath them was still built one custom project at a time, on timelines measured in years.

We founded Mavria to close that gap. We are building to industrialize intelligence: turning the physical infrastructure AI runs on into products we manufacture, deploy and improve with every build.

We’re starting with data centers. Our first product, Terrain, is a factory-built data center platform. Terrain 01 is being built in Houston now, and we’ve raised $130M as of October 2026 to accelerate our roadmap.

Terrain is our first product, not the limit of our ambition. We intend to eliminate the physical bottlenecks that constrain American AI leadership and build one of the foundational infrastructure companies of the AI era.

How we build

At Mavria, three principles guide how we work:

• Ambition: We want to build a generational company. To do that, we build capabilities, not just products. Terrain is our first product, not our last – and we seek to eliminate strategic bottlenecks across the entire AI supply chain.

• Urgency: AI moves in weeks, while infrastructure tends to move in years. We match the frontier’s pace by making decisions quickly, building in parallel and securing critical supply ahead of demand. We surface problems early and never compromise on safety or engineering rigor.

• Ownership: When we say we’ll do something, we do it. Keeping our word is how we stand apart, and taking radical ownership over our scope and our domain is how we build trust – internally and externally – while moving fast.

Role scope

As our first lawyer focusing on commercial and contracting matters, you’ll work side by side with our co-founder, Seth Cohen, our CFO, Tyler Staebell, and our engineering and site teams to own the agreements behind every Terrain we build and deploy. You’ll negotiate with suppliers, fabricators, customers, landowners and partners, and you’ll help build the legal function Mavria needs as it scales. You will:

• Run the contract cycle: Draft, review and negotiate the agreements that carry Terrain from our supply chain to our customers’ sites, including supply and fabrication agreements, customer deployment contracts, NDAs and partnership agreements.

• Negotiate and execute our site deals: Draft and negotiate land purchases, leases, options, host agreements and utility agreements as each project moves to closing.

• Build our legal playbook: Turn each negotiation into templates, fallback positions and approval paths that let our commercial and procurement teams close routine terms without waiting on legal.

• Embed with the business: Work alongside our engineering and procurement teams in Houston and our commercial team on customer pursuits, keeping every commitment we sign in line with what we can build and deliver.

• Stand up the legal function: Build the systems a fast-growing company needs, from contract management and signature authority to corporate records, compliance and outside counsel management, and help shape the team that comes next.

• Carry it through: Stay with each agreement from first draft through signature and into performance, tracking the obligations, notice dates and renewals that follow every deal.

What we're looking for

For this role, we want an experienced commercial lawyer with the following qualities:

• A lawyer first: At least four to five years of commercial or transactional experience at a leading law firm, technology company or energy company, and admission to practice in at least one U.S. state.

• Commercially minded: You read a contract for the deal behind it, and you explain risk to engineers, executives and counterparties in plain terms.

• Extremely agentic: You find the problem before anyone assigns it, run with little direction and take responsibility for outcomes.

• Entrepreneurial: You want to build a legal function from its first templates, and you put process, tooling and AI to work on it.

• Built for pace: You turn drafts in hours, and you know which terms merit a fight and which to concede.

Experience negotiating supply, manufacturing, construction, energy or real estate agreements, or working in-house at a high-growth company, carries particular weight. We value ability over years or titles. Mavria recognizes that resumes may not always tell the whole story, and we will consider lawyers from a range of backgrounds and experiences.

To apply: Share your background, an example of a negotiation you led or a legal process you built, and a few bullets on what makes you exceptional.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% paid for the employee

• Retirement Plan with a 3.5% company match

• Flexible time off

Mavria is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Mavria will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law.