About the role
We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel with 5+ years of experience to serve as a strategic legal partner to our business development and engineering teams as we pivot to becoming the leading AR waveguide supplier for major tier-1 OEMs. This is a backfill on our commercial and product legal team, and you'll play a critical role in structuring deals, advising on product development, and navigating the legal complexities of cutting-edge hardware technology.
What will you be doing?
- Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements tied to strategic partnerships with major tech companies (e.g., Google, Snap)
- Provide hands-on product counseling to engineering teams throughout the hardware product development lifecycle
- Identify legal risks early in the product development process and propose practical mitigation strategies
- Help structure deals and product decisions for Magic Leap's waveguide and optics component business
- Collaborate cross-functionally with biz dev, engineering, and legal teams while maintaining and improving contract templates, playbooks, and scalable processes
Key Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial and product legal experience at a hardware-centric company (semiconductors, optics/photonics, consumer electronics, robotics, or AR/VR)
- J.D. or foreign equivalent with active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- Demonstrated experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex technology transactions
- In-house experience working directly with engineering and business development teams on product development
- Ability to understand the technology and business behind complex physical products and translate that into practical legal advice
