Meta
Associate General Counsel, Reality Labs — Hardware Regulatory Readiness
$202K–$274K
Menlo Park, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
Seattle, WA
Burlingame, CA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of legal experience; applicable regulatory, product counseling, or hardware/consumer-product experience.
- Education
- J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent).
About the job
Serves as the central legal owner for Meta Reality Labs’ hardware regulatory obligations, advising teams and building readiness processes for wearables, VR/AR, app stores, and other devices across global markets.
What you'll do
- Advise product, engineering, supply chain, packaging, and business teams on hardware regulatory obligations and risk mitigation across jurisdictions.
- Build and maintain processes to track, prioritize, and operationalize emerging regulatory requirements ahead of enforcement deadlines.
- Coordinate with legal, policy, compliance, and outside counsel teams on regulatory readiness and product development.
What they ask for
- J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar.
- 8+ years of legal experience, including at a law firm or in-house.
- Experience advising on regulatory compliance and hardware or consumer-electronics regulatory frameworks, including EU and global product regimes.
- Experience counseling product and engineering teams through the full product development lifecycle and building cross-functional regulatory readiness processes.
Pay
$202,000/year to $274,000/year (base salary)
Tools
AI tools
AI focus
Integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and deliver measurable impact; apply responsible, ethical AI practices; develop AI skills such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration; support compliance for AI-enabled hardware and new AI laws.
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