Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial & Product

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