Legal Counsel for Commercial Engagements-Encore Program Internship

Texas Instruments; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments is seeking a highly motivated Legal Counsel for its Encore Program in Dallas, a paid 12-week internship designed for professionals returning to work after a career break. You will contribute from day one, solving real problems and collaborating with TI teams.

The role offers broad exposure to international contracts, IP licensing, and technology transactions, with a focus on practical business outcomes and cross-border collaboration.

Qualifications

• Must be licensed to practice law in Texas.
• Minimum 5 years of transactional and/or litigation experience at a top law firm, corporate law department, or equivalent.
• Experience with technology licensing, IP, or related complex transactions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Advise leaders across TI on complex commercial contracts and licensing matters.
• Support global initiatives with a data-driven, scalable legal approach.
• Collaborate with an international team to manage a diverse portfolio of matters.
• Drive process improvements, modular contract architectures, and AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

Strong advocacy

Critical thinking

Analytical skills

Independence & initiative

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

J.D. or equivalent law degree

Licensed to practice law in Texas

Job description

Description

Are you an experienced professional or veteran looking for a purposeful step back into the workforce after an extended career break? Or are you ready to return to full-time work but need a flexible bridge to relaunch your career?

TI's Encore Program helps you put your skills to work, sharpen your capabilities, and relaunch your career.

About the Encore program

• Overview: A paid, 12-week internship designed for experienced talent who have taken a career break of 2 years or more over a continuous period
• Your role: You’ll be a contributor, not a trainee, from day 1—solving real problems, inventing solutions, and collaborating with TI teams.
• Support: Personalized mentorship, coaching, and networking opportunities are built into the program.
• Outcome: High-performing participants will be considered for full-time employment at the end of the program.

Qualifications, skills and requirements

• A career break of at least 2 years
• Intent to return to a full-time role at TI after the program.
• No sponsorship required now or in the future (U.S. work-authorization required).
• Meet the minimum role-specific requirements for the job

Change the world. Love your job.

TI's Legal Department is seeking a skilled, highly motivated, and proactive self-starter to join our Worldwide Commercial Engagements team as Legal Counsel. You will operate in a fast-moving, global environment supporting a cutting-edge and expanding semiconductor company, serving as a trusted advisor to leaders across TI.

You will join an experienced, collaborative Dallas-based legal team. The role offers broad, international exposure to complex commercial contracts, online commerce, intellectual property, open-source and software licensing, supply chain, marketing, crisis communications, and cybersecurity. Experience with technology licensing, tech transfer, or IP-intensive transactions is a plus.

We are looking for agile learners and true go-getters—attorneys who take initiative, anticipate issues, and independently drive matters to completion. You will manage your own portfolio, apply strong business judgment, and work across an international team to advise on emerging and evolving business models.

In this role, you will help ensure TI is asking—and solving—the right questions. You will quickly assess whether an issue advances a meaningful business objective, reframe it when needed, and deprioritize it when it doesn’t. You’ll begin each project with a clear definition of success, align with stakeholders upfront, and track whether your actions deliver the intended outcome. You will be expected to elevate thoughtfully and with purpose— to improve outcomes, not simply to be cautious—to use escalation to drive alignment, enable decisions, or materially shift strategy while maintaining responsibility for forward progress.

You will help us move from custom, one-off lawyering to modular contract architecture by creating reusable contract structures and legal frameworks that enable speed, scale, and consistent risk posture. You will help modernize our operations through standardization, automation, and AI. We are looking for someone who gives data-driven advice, grounded in prior deal history, defined legal positions, and prevailing market norms. You’ll contribute to building and maintaining the legal data, playbooks, and knowledge assets that support this approach.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

• Must be, or be eligible to become, licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience practicing transactional (preferred) and/or litigation related work at a top law firm, corporate law department or equivalent experience (ideally international context).

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong advocacy, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Ability to creatively solve problems independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to balance detail-orientation and strategic thinking.
• Ability to manage multiple issues/projects at the same time; project management experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to tackle new subject matter areas and an eagerness to constantly learn.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a diverse international team of lawyers and business managers.
• Interest and enthusiasm in leveraging technology for the provision of legal services.
• The ideal candidate will have experience representing or interacting with technology, automotive and/or manufacturing companies.