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Seattle, Washington, United States
Onsite
Available
Nuance Labs is building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence: a full-duplex audiovisual system that can listen, speak, react, interrupt, and respond like a real person.
We're a research company, with PhDs from MIT, UW, Oxford, CMU, and Johns Hopkins, and industry experience from Apple, Meta, Amazon AGI, and more. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed, South Park Commons, and NVIDIA, we combine frontier research with ruthless engineering needed for consumer-grade, real-time systems. The team is small, the work is real, and the problems are unsolved.
Most conversational AI avatars today are hacks — a face slapped on a speech-to-speech pipeline, stuck in the uncanny valley: emotionless, mechanical, one-turn-at-a-time. Current systems take 2–5 seconds to respond; natural conversation requires sub-500ms. That's a 10x improvement, and it demands rethinking the entire stack.
That rethinking starts with full-duplex: an AI that listens and speaks simultaneously, perceives emotion in real time, and responds with a face that actually reflects it. It's an extremely hard problem, and we're developing foundation models designed for it from the ground up.
We're looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to help Nuance Labs move quickly on day-to-day deals and navigate the evolving AI data and privacy landscape.
As our first in-house attorney, you'll work closely with our business, research, and data teams, alongside our external legal counsel team, to negotiate agreements and resolve practical legal questions.
Our work in real-time audio-visual AI raises questions around data sourcing, usage rights, consent, and privacy. You'll help translate those questions into clear advice and workable agreements that support research and product development.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with an emphasis on day-to-day deal execution and practical guidance on AI data and privacy.
$200,000 – $300,000 base salary, plus meaningful equity. We think long-term ownership matters and structure equity accordingly.
Nuance Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better AI.