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About the Role
The Legal Department is seeking a motivated attorney to partner with the Datacenter Solutions Group (DSG). This role will advise on product development and commercialization, negotiate agreements, and counsel on intellectual property, open-source software, compliance, and contractual risk for datacenter hardware, software, and solutions.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Commercial transactions
- Intellectual property law
- Negotiation
- Legal advisory
- Contract drafting
- Risk assessment
- Open-source software
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Legal research
- Communication
Location
- Austin
- San Jose
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Practicing attorney
- Law firm experience
- In-house experience
Education Level
- JD degree
- Admission to practice law in a U.S. state
Benefits
- AMD benefits at a glance
About the Company
- At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.
- Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.
Equal Opportunity
- AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.