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Senior Counsel, Real Estate

AMD· General Management/ Administration/ Support
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$166.2k - $249.2kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

In-house senior corporate counsel role focused on data center, infrastructure, energy, and related financing transactions within AMD's Legal team. Lead end-to-end legal work for complex real estate and financing deals, collaborate with strategy, capital markets, and cross-functional teams, and develop scalable playbooks for infrastructure transactions.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school preferred.
  • Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar desired.

Skills

Required:Real estate lawProject financeStructured financeCredit support / guaranteesCross-functional collaborationNegotiation

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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