Legal Counsel - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

**Weekly Hours:** 40

**Role Number:** 200624819-0836

**Summary**

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Do you love Apple products? Do you love solving problems? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced and exciting environment? Do you enjoy working on matters that touch customers all over the world? As a part of our Product Law Group, you’ll help uphold Apple’s high ethical and corporate standards. You’ll help provide legal support for all our products across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your expertise to rare and often unexplored areas of the law. As a member of the Products & Regulatory Legal Group, you will work with Apple’s engineering, operations, and marketing teams to help create and introduce Apple products to the world. With passion, dedication, and a desire to tackle challenges, you will play a crucial role as we provide the legal support needed for Apple to continue to build cutting-edge technologies.

**Description**

You will join a team of attorneys in the Products & Regulatory Legal Group to support engineering and business teams to enable artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will work closely with engineering and business teams to strategize on, draft and negotiate complex technology licenses and commercials agreements. You’ll advise the business in the day-to-day work with third parties, and in the related development of artificial intelligence features. This work will require close collaboration with subject matter experts across legal teams on topics including privacy, data security, intellectual property, export compliance, and product counseling. The candidate must have experience managing a large docket of deals and be able to solve highly complex issues in creative and effective ways, while maintaining an acceptable level of legal risk in a fast-paced environment. You will also advise Apple management on risk allocation/mitigation, business strategies, and policies.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ 4+ years of legal experience at a technology company or a leading law firm

+ 2+ years of experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements

+ JD degree or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Knowledge of Apple business is preferred

+ Experience with artificial intelligence, privacy, and intellectual property issues

+ Excellent communication skills with the ability to advise and build relationships with executive management, teammates, and cross-functional partners

+ Strong analytical skills and business sense with the ability to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways

+ Ability to develop and facilitate collaboration by cultivating relationships and effectively counseling and communicating with legal and cross-functional partners

+ Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage a high volume or projects

+ Self-starter who is curious, loves technology, and thrives in a dynamic environment

+ Ability to handle your own high-volume workload on day-to-day matters

+ Ability to see beyond the precise question asked to larger issues and implications

+ Excellent communicator who is able to issue-spot and articulate complex and nuanced legal issues clearly and concisely to frontline business and engineering teams and senior executives alike

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .