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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. Qualcomm scores C on the Alion truth index.

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Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It holds foundational patents in CDMA and the 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, licensing them to nearly every handset maker in the world, while its chip division designs the Snapdragon platforms that power a large share of Android smartphones, personal computers, wearables and connected cars. The company has been diversifying away from smartphone dependence into automotive digital cockpit and driver assistance systems, industrial internet of things, and on-device AI processing through its Hexagon and Oryon architectures.

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.

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 [email protected] 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).

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

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.

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 rangeand 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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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