Associate Attorney, Senior; Litigation

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Incorporated's Legal Group is seeking a qualified Counsel to provide strategic legal guidance across litigation, licensing, and commercial agreements. You will draft, negotiate, and review complex documents while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and policies.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential to support company objectives. The role requires a JD, an active bar license, and several years of in-house or law-firm experience.

Qualifications

• JD required and active bar license to practice law in the relevant state.
• 2+ years of counsel experience in law firm or in-house setting.
• Strong ability to draft, negotiate, and review complex documents.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic legal advice on litigation, licensing, and commercial agreements.
• Drafts, negotiates, and reviews moderately complex documents and policies.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to align legal strategy with business goals.
• Manages legal risks and compliance, supporting business and technology initiatives.

Skills

Bar license

Counsel experience

Contract negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Juris Doctorate

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area

Legal Group, Legal Group > Legal Counsel

General Summary

Responsible for providing advice and services on legal matters (e.g., litigation, licensing, commercial agreements), utilizing knowledge of law, legal principles, common practice, and policies related to one’s practice area. Maintains awareness of legal risks and compliance standards. Works with a team to draft, negotiate, and review agreements and policies to support legal needs. Serves as a resource on legal matters and collaborates across departments and organizations to gather information and develop legal solutions and strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate degree or international equivalent.
• 2+ years of relevant experience as counsel at a law firm or in-house.
• Active bar license or other lawful ability to practice law in the state or jurisdiction where the employee will be located (for example, ability to gain admission as registered in house counsel).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or legal-related field.
• Master's degree in Law.
• 4+ years in practice with relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience as counsel at a law firm or in-house with a focus on relevant specialty (e.g., technology, real estate).
• 1+ year in a leadership role with direct reports in a legal function (only applies to positions with direct reports).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies advanced knowledge of law, legal principles, and common practice to develop legal solutions.
• Executes legal strategy to support corporate objectives, aligned with best practices.
• Drafts, negotiates, and reviews moderately complex documents (e.g., guidelines, agreements, and/or policies).
• Provides advice and support on legal matters under limited guidance. Acts as a legal resource to others in one's practice area, across a team.
• Applies knowledge of legal risks, policies, and compliance requirements to assist in supporting a business or technology area.
• Gathers, integrates, and interprets legal and policy information from a variety of sources to assist in troubleshooting legal issues and makes recommendations.
• Seeks information within and across project teams to identify fundamental patterns/trends.
• Makes decisions on complex issues that impact business results and arise within one's own team, with input and guidance when appropriate.

Level of Responsibility

• Works under some supervision.
• Provides supervision to direct reports.
• Decisions are moderate in nature. Errors are detected and corrected with relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships. May require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. Role may require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc.
• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.
• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).
• Most tasks do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
• Creativity is needed to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines.
• Deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
• Incumbent's input may be solicited during strategic planning period.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [e-mail] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

EEO Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Policy Compliance

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$141,300.00 - $211,900.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.