Senior Legal Counsel - Federal Technology & Government Contracts

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Location: Washington, DC, District of Columbia, United States

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community.

We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Supermicro is seeking an experienced

Senior Legal Counsel to advise the organization on the legal, regulatory, contracting, and compliance matters associated with providing technology products and services to U.S. federal government agencies.

This role will serve as a strategic legal partner to business, technology, sales, contracts, cybersecurity, finance, and executive leadership teams. The Senior Legal Counsel will provide practical guidance across the federal acquisition lifecycle—from opportunity development and solicitation responses through contract negotiation, performance, modifications, renewals, and closeout.

The ideal candidate combines strong commercial judgment with substantial knowledge of federal procurement and government contracts, technology transactions, cybersecurity and data issues, and the regulatory environment applicable to federal technology vendors.

• Advise business and contracts teams regarding federal acquisition laws, regulations, policies, and contracting practices, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and applicable agency-specific supplements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate federal government contracts, subcontracts, teaming agreements, reseller arrangements, licensing agreements, statements of work, modifications, and related commercial agreements.
• Advise on solicitations, requests for proposals, task orders, contract vehicles, procurement strategies, and other federal acquisition opportunities.
• Support proposal development and identify legal, contractual, regulatory, intellectual-property, security, and performance risks before submission.
• Advise on contract interpretation, scope, pricing and payment provisions, intellectual property rights, data rights, warranties, indemnification, limitations of liability, termination, disputes, and other government contracting provisions.

Technology Transactions

• Advise on the sale, licensing, implementation, hosting, and support of software, SaaS, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, data, and other technology solutions to federal agencies.
• Develop and negotiate technology licensing, software-as-a-service, professional services, data-use, implementation, maintenance, and support agreements.
• Advise on intellectual property ownership, licensing, government-use rights, technical data, software rights, and other government-specific IP considerations.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to structure offerings in a manner consistent with federal contracting requirements and customer commitments.

Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data

• Advise on federal cybersecurity, privacy, information-security, and data-management requirements applicable to technology products and services.
• Support compliance with contractual security requirements and federal frameworks applicable to the organization's offerings and customer environments.
• Advise on data ownership, access, use, retention, disclosure, incident response, breach notification, and government data-handling…