The Legal Counsel will provide legal support for government funding, draft and negotiate agreements, ensure compliance, and manage relationships with government agencies.
About Texas Instruments (TI)
Texas Instruments (TI) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips used across industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics, and communications markets. As governments and industries place greater emphasis on the role of semiconductors, TI’s technology has never been more important.
The Role
We are seeking a strategic, execution-focused attorney to drive legal support for government funding opportunities and related legal requirements and contract commitments. Based in either the Washington, D.C. or Dallas, Texas office, this attorney will draft, negotiate, analyze and administer complex funding arrangements and support compliance related to these performance-based agreements, including proposals, grants, incentives, cooperative agreements, and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements. The role requires a strong ability to translate complex regulatory and contractual frameworks into actionable advice and practical business processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Interpret and operationalize regulatory requirements and contractual commitments
- Support review, preparation and submission of required reports, certifications, and compliance documentation
- Engage with government agencies and authorities to enable negotiation strategy and ongoing relationship management
- Establish and maintain tracking systems for compliance obligations
- Ensure documentation integrity across multi-year funding commitments
- Proactively identify and close potential risks to maintaining the funding commitment
- Provide concise executive updates on status, risks, and emerging obligations
- Drive early alignment across stakeholders to integrate obligations into business processes
- Clarify accountability for long-term deliverables tied to funding agreements
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
5+ years of relevant legal experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing contractual obligations tied to public funding or large-scale commercial agreements
- Strong program management skills with ability to coordinate across multiple functions
- Ability to operate independently and influence without formal authority
- Strong written communication skills, particularly for executive and government-facing materials
- Experience navigating ambiguity in new and evolving opportunities
- Direct experience with federal funding and incentive programs or other large-scale grant or cooperative agreement frameworks
- Familiarity with federal funding instruments (grants, cooperative agreements, tax credits, loan guarantees) and associated compliance requirements
- Experience supporting negotiations with federal agencies or state economic development authorities
- Direct experience with federal funding and incentive programs or other large-scale grant or cooperative agreement frameworks
- Familiarity with federal funding instruments (grants, cooperative agreements, tax credits, loan guarantees) and associated compliance requirements
- Experience supporting negotiations with federal agencies or state economic development authorities
- Experience building governance structures for multi-year, high-value agreements
About Us
Why TI?
- Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
- We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
- Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com.
Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
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