Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Sr. Corp. Counsel Legal

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • $160K — $190K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of legal experience, preferably in-house and with law firm background
  • Strong skills in commercial transactions and intellectual property law
  • Experience in the computing or semiconductor industry is advantageous
  • JD degree and admission to practice law in a U.S. state
  • Excellent communication skills, adept at simplifying complex legal concepts

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted legal advisor to various teams within DSG, balancing legal and business needs
  • Draft and negotiate complex commercial and technology agreements related to DSG products
  • Provide guidance on product development, intellectual property, and compliance matters
  • Lead internal negotiations and escalate significant legal risks as necessary
  • Support strategic engagements involving advanced datacenter solutions
  • Help resolve contractual disputes and advise clients on agreements
  • Develop resources that enhance contracting efficiency and compliance
  • Monitor legal and regulatory trends impacting datacenter and semiconductor products

Benefits

  • AMD benefits at a glance
  • Flexible work location in San Jose or Austin
  • Opportunity for professional development and training
  • Engagement in cutting-edge technology projects
  • Collaborative work environment across various teams
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

The Legal Department is seeking a highly motivated attorney to join the team supporting AMD's Datacenter Solutions Group (DSG). This attorney will serve as a practical, business-oriented legal partner to DSG's engineering, product, and business development teams in support of AMD's datacenter related products (including datacenter CPUs, GPU accelerators, network solutions, and related software, and tools). The role will advise on product development and commercialization, structure and negotiate complex technology, licensing, supply, collaboration, and customer agreements, counsel on intellectual property, open-source software, compliance, and contractual risk, and help resolve disputes and other issues affecting DSG's datacenter hardware, software, and solutions.

This role can be located in Austin or San Jose.

THE PERSON:

  • Ability to work with clients at all levels to achieve a common goal while taking into consideration both legal and business issues.
  • Self-starter who can work independently and as a team.
  • Understands when it is appropriate to escalate issues.
  • Makes sound judgments and recommendations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable using "plain English" to explain complex legal concepts.
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize workload and competing priorities.
  • Efficient, effective, well organized, and able to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a desire to support complex software and hardware products - enjoys learning about cutting-edge technology.
  • Creative problem-solver with a practical, collaborative, solution-oriented mindset.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Serve as a trusted legal advisor to DSG engineering, product, sales, marketing, and business development teams, providing practical guidance that balances legal risk with business and technical objectives.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial and technology agreements relating to DSG products and solutions, including customer, supply, licensing, development, evaluation, services, and strategic collaboration agreements.
  • Advise on product development and commercialization matters involving intellectual property, software and data rights, open-source software, confidentiality, warranties, compliance, risk allocation, and dispute resolution.
  • Lead and coordinate negotiations with internal stakeholders across engineering, sales, finance, operations, compliance, and other functions, and escalate significant legal or business risks as appropriate.
  • Support strategic customer and partner engagements involving datacenter CPUs, GPU accelerators, networking solutions, software, tools, and integrated systems.
  • Help prevent and resolve contractual, product, and commercial disputes, and advise clients on interpretation of existing agreements and available remedies.
  • Develop templates, playbooks, guidance, and training that improve contracting efficiency, promote consistent legal positions, and support compliance with company policies.
  • Monitor emerging legal and regulatory issues affecting datacenter, AI, semiconductor, hardware, and software products, and translate those developments into practical guidance for the business.


PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

  • Demonstrated experience as a practicing attorney, with both law firm and in-house experience preferred.
  • Experience in commercial transactions, intellectual property law.
  • Experience in the computing or semiconductor industry is a plus.


ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

  • A JD degree and admission to practice law in a U.S. state.


LOCATION:
  • San Jose OR Austin


This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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Learn more about Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
Size
15,500 employees
Market Cap
$100.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+30.9%
Revenue
$9.7 billion
NASDAQ
AMD
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