Senior Counsel, Real Estate

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THE ROLE: 

AMD and its customers are building the compute backbone of the AI era, and our Legal team sits at the center of that expansion. We are seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to join AMD's in-house real estate legal team and lead the legal work behind our most complex data center, infrastructure, energy, and related financing transactions.

In this high-impact role you will help AMD and its customers acquire, and finance the data center facilities that fuel our AI and high-performance computing roadmap, working shoulder to shoulder with our Corporate Strategy and Capital Markets teams as well as Real Estate and Facilities, Engineering, Finance, and Treasury stakeholders. You will own sophisticated, time-sensitive deals end to end, from initial site diligence and power procurement through negotiating the project finance and structured transactions that fund them.

This is a ground-level opportunity to shape the playbooks that scale our infrastructure program, and see your work translate directly into the capacity that powers next-generation computing. If you are energized by fast-moving, first-of-their-kind projects at the intersection of real estate, digital infrastructure, energy, and capital markets, this role is where your work can have visible, lasting impact. 

THE PERSON: 

You are a pragmatic, business-minded lawyer who thrives on complex, high-stakes transactions and enjoys being the go-to advisor for a fast-moving infrastructure team. You bring hands-on experience with large data center and infrastructure deals and the energy arrangements that power them, and you are equally comfortable negotiating sophisticated legal terms, technical power and utility requirements, and the credit support and financing structures behind a deal.

You are at home partnering with corporate strategy, corporate development, and capital markets colleagues, and you can translate complex financing and commercial considerations into clear, actionable legal advice. You balance legal risk with commercial priorities, communicate clearly to legal and non-legal stakeholders alike, and take ownership of ambiguous, first-of-their-kind challenges without waiting for direction. You are collaborative, direct, and humble, and you know how to move deals forward with urgency while protecting AMD's interests. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provide legal support across the full lifecycle of AMD's data center transactions, including site selection, power procurement, leasing, and credit support transactions. 

• Support strategic partnerships and co-investment structures, including transactions with financing components and off-take arrangements, and negotiate third-party credit support such as guarantees and other risk-allocation mechanisms. 

• Support the capital markets and structured finance transactions that fund AMD's data center and infrastructure programs, including project finance, data center equipment financing, secured borrowing facilities, and securitization structures, partnering with Treasury and Capital Markets on credit support, transaction documentation, and negotiations with lenders, sponsors, investors, and rating agencies. 

• Participate in AMD's strategic transactions pipeline, supporting rapid vetting, diligence, and execution across multiple active deals. 

• Serve as a key legal partner to AMD's Corporate Strategy team on capital allocation, strategic initiatives, and large-scale capital deployment opportunities, advising from evaluation and diligence through structuring and execution. 

• Partner with Real Estate and Facilities, Corporate Strategy, Engineering, Finance, Treasury, and IT teams to align transaction structures with AMD's technical and commercial needs. 

• Coordinate and manage outside counsel to control cost, timeline, and quality, and develop scalable templates and playbooks for recurring data center, infrastructure, and energy transactions. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Extensive legal experience with complex commercial real estate, data center, or digital infrastructure transactions, ideally including direct experience at or with data center providers, hyperscalers, colocation operators, or other large-scale infrastructure developers. 

• Experience supporting or advising on capital markets and structured finance transactions, such as project finance, data center equipment financing, securitization, secured lending, or investment-grade debt, ideally in connection with data center, technology infrastructure, or power generation assets. 

• Practical understanding of commercial real estate concepts, including leasing, development, construction, lending, title, zoning, and land use. 

• Experience advising developers, operators, investors, and sophisticated enterprise tenants, and structuring or negotiating guarantees and other credit support mechanisms. 

• Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally on capital allocation, capital deployment, and strategic initiatives. 

• A pragmatic approach to balancing legal risk with business priorities, paired with clear, concise communication for legal and non-legal stakeholders. 

• Proven ability to independently manage complex, high-value, multiparty transactions in a fast-paced, in-house environment. 

• A mix of leading law firm and in-house experience. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school preferred. 

• Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar desired. 

LOCATION: 

• Austin, Texas; (open to other office locations in CA)

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.