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Associate General Counsel, Robotics

Meta· Legal
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Redmond, WA$233k - $313kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Meta seeks a product-focused attorney to support Meta Robotics Studio, advising on a broad range of legal issues across jurisdictions as robotics initiatives evolve from prototype to scale. The role emphasizes first-principles reasoning, handling novel legal questions, and building scalable frameworks and playbooks for the robotics program.

Responsibilities

  • Take on novel legal questions with no clear answer, reason them through from first principles, and deliver practical, strategic advice our product and engineering teams can act on
  • Analyze new products, features, and business models to identify and mitigate legal risks across multiple jurisdictions
  • Advise on AI regulatory, hardware, trade, consumer protection, data protection, privacy, competition, intellectual property, product safety, workplace safety and emerging legal frameworks
  • Advise machine learning teams on dataset and model licensing, provenance, third-party model use, and how evolving global AI regulation applies to model development and data collection
  • Carry the hardware program's legal arc from prototype through development to manufacturing at scale, including product safety, certification, trade, and supply-chain risk
  • Evaluate, draft, and negotiate contracts relating to strategic partnerships, manufacturing and supply, data collection, and services integrated into our products
  • Work directly with product and technical teams to build product knowledge and provide front-line legal and strategic business advice across multiple jurisdictions
  • Drive high-profile, high-impact projects involving legal analysis and compliance with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Build the frameworks, playbooks, and templates that let this function scale and build relationships with executives and product teams across Reality Labs
  • Influence product and business decisions, ensuring alignment with legal and regulatory requirements
  • Proactively identify and address potential legal roadblocks, developing plans to mitigate risks

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution
  • Active and in good standing bar license in at least one U.S. state or equivalent foreign bar license
  • 8+ years of legal experience as a practicing attorney, including at a law firm, in-house, or in government
  • Demonstrated ability to work in the face of ambiguity and to reason from first principles where precedent and settled guidance do not exist
  • Demonstrated experience providing legal advice on technology, internet, or media products and services
  • Effective communication, legal writing, and interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated business judgment, client counseling, and strategic thinking skills
  • Proven track record of delivering results with large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience making decisions in the face of ambiguity and evolving priorities

Skills

Required:Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalentBar admission

Benefits

  • Benefits information available at Meta Careers site (not enumerated in posting)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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