Senior Real Estate Counsel – Data Center & Infrastructure

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. seeks a Senior Corporate Counsel to lead complex data center, real estate, energy, and financing transactions.

You will own deals end to end, from diligence to structuring, partnering with Strategy, Treasury, Real Estate, Finance, and IT to align legal terms with AMD's technical and business goals. This in-house role demands pragmatic risk management, expert negotiation of power/utility agreements, project finance, and capital markets work, plus guiding

Qualifications

• Extensive legal experience with complex commercial real estate, data center, or digital infrastructure transactions.
• Experience supporting or advising on capital markets and structured finance transactions.
• Energy and infrastructure experience, including electricity transactions, power purchase agreements, interconnection and utility arrangements.
• Practical understanding of commercial real estate concepts, including leasing, development, construction, lending, title, zoning, and land use.
• Fluency negotiating technical terms related to data center operations, power, and utilities.
• Experience advising developers, operators, investors, and sophisticated enterprise tenants.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with corporate strategy, treasury or capital markets teams on capital allocation, deployment, and strategic initiatives.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing legal risk with business priorities, 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support across the full lifecycle of AMD's data center transactions, including site selection, leasing, credit support transactions, and ongoing operations, and help manage landlord-tenant and facility operator relationships.
• 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.
• Review and negotiate electricity infrastructure and supply agreements, power purchase agreements (including for renewable and carbon-free electricity), interconnection agreements, and related utility arrangements to power new and expanding data center facilities.
• Advise on energy regulatory matters and market-specific risks affecting data center power procurement and operations, partnering with Engineering and Facilities teams on power, cooling, and utility requirements.
• 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, energy, and commercial needs.
• Review and assess due diligence, including title, survey, environmental, and regulatory review, and advise business leaders on risks and mitigations.
• 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.

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. seeks a Senior Corporate Counsel to lead complex data center, real estate, energy, and financing transactions.

You will own deals end to end, from diligence to structuring, partnering with Strategy, Treasury, Real Estate, Finance, and IT to align legal terms with AMD's technical and business goals. This in-house role demands pragmatic risk management, expert negotiation of power/utility agreements, project finance, and capital markets work, plus guiding