Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

As a Legal Counsel, you will be a key member of our Headquarters Legal Team in Gilching, supporting Quantum Systems across a broad range of legal matters. You will partner closely with stakeholders from all departments, enabling business growth while safeguarding the company’s interests. With your strong legal expertise and pragmatic mindset, you will help build scalable legal processes, mitigate risks, and protect our innovations in a fast-growing international technology environment.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of commercial agreements in German and English, including customer, supplier, development, licensing, and cooperation agreements.

• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to internal stakeholders across Procurement, Sales, R&D, Product, Operations, and Corporate Functions.

• Provide practical and business-oriented legal guidance on commercial law matters and day-to-day corporate legal topics.

• Support the protection, management, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, know-how, and licensing activities.

• Identify legal risks early and develop pragmatic solutions that enable business objectives while ensuring compliance.

• Review and further develop legal templates, policies, and internal processes to improve efficiency and consistency.

• Conduct legal research and monitor relevant legislative and regulatory developments affecting the business.

• Support corporate law matters, strategic projects, financing activities, and other cross-functional initiatives as required.

• Contribute to the continued development of a modern, scalable, and business-focused legal function within a rapidly growing technology company.

• Documenting and archiving all legal documents and contracts in a contract database.

What you bring to the team:

• Fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist) or a degree in Business Law (LL.B./LL.M.) or a comparable legal qualification.

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience gained in an international company and/or a law firm.

• Strong expertise in commercial and contract law, with the ability to translate complex legal matters into practical business advice.

• Experience in intellectual property law, licensing, technology-related legal matters, or a strong interest in developing further expertise in these areas.

• Sound understanding of corporate legal topics and experience supporting a broad range of internal stakeholders.

• Ability to balance legal risk management with commercial objectives in a dynamic business environment.

• Structured, independent, and hands-on working style combined with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong analytical thinking, sound judgment, and a solution-oriented mindset.

• Business-fluent German and English skills, both written and spoken.

• Enthusiasm for innovation, technology, and contributing to the future of autonomous systems.

Why Quantum-Systems:

• We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.

• We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.

• We push limits, think outside-the-box and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.

• We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

Our benefits:

• Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make provisions for later.

• Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but also for your work-life balance.

• Mobile working: If it gets too turbulent for you in our office, you can get the necessary balance through mobile working.

• Bike-Leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.

• Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.

• Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but also celebrate our successes together.

• Lunch-Card: Be powerful with delicious energy, daily lunch budget is sponsored.

• Company Shuttle: Enjoy our convenient shuttle service that picks you up from Pasing in Munich and brings you to our location, with return trips at the end of the workday.

About us:

Quantum Systems is a leading European deep-tech company for unmanned systems across air, land and maritime domains. We develop and scale integrated hardware, software and AI-powered solutions for mission-critical operations.

At Quantum Systems, you’ll work alongside experts across disciplines, take ownership from day one and help turn ambitious ideas into technology with real-world impact. We move fast, think beyond boundaries and give our teams the space to shape what comes next.

The Future is Unmanned - But the responsibility is not.

Our commitment:

We are an open-minded company that not only values diversity, but actively promotes it. Regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability, we firmly believe that the diversity of our employees is an essential part of our success.

At our company, every voice is heard and every perspective is valued. We believe that our differences enrich us and help us to find creative solutions and generate innovative ideas. We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment where all employees can reach their full potential.