Senior In-House Counsel

Tenstorrent; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent seeks a Senior In-House Counsel to own key legal functions and partner with teams across the organization in Toronto. You will guide the contract lifecycle from intake and drafting through negotiation, execution and ongoing management, minimizing risk and serving as a trusted advisor.

You will advise Leadership, Engineering, Product and other teams on complex legal, privacy and compliance matters related to semiconductor and AI technology, and draft and negotiate strategic agreements

Qualifications

• JD and active state bar membership; 5+ years in a law firm or in-house.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end contract lifecycle from intake to post-execution.
• Guide teams through negotiation, drafting and execution.
• Provide practical legal advice to Leadership, Engineering, Product and other teams.
• Draft and negotiate strategic agreements including licenses and hardware/channel agreements.
• Design scalable legal infrastructure: templates, playbooks and CLM workflows.
• Advise on regulatory, privacy and risk issues for semiconductor and AI technology.

Skills

Negotiation

Cross-functional partnership

Advisory

Education

JD and active state bar

Job description

• Tenstorrent is hiring a Senior In-House Counsel to own key legal functions and serve as a hands-on partner to teams across the organization
• In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of the areas you support—guiding teams through the entire contract lifecycle, from intake and drafting through negotiation, execution, and ongoing management—while minimizing legal and compliance risk and serving as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, external partners, and vendors
• How to help architect the legal foundation for a company building the future of computing and scaling as a global, open-hardware technology company
• How to advise Leadership, Engineering, Product, and other teams on novel legal, compliance, privacy, and risk issues involving modern semiconductor and AI technology
• How to draft and negotiate the complex agreements that enable commercial growth and strategic partnerships, from strategic transactions and technology licenses to the hardware, channel, and manufacturing agreements unique to shipping silicon
• How to design legal infrastructure that scales: templates, playbooks, and policies built for regional and global consistency, and CLM workflows spanning intake, template generation, review and negotiation, approval routing, signature, storage, and post-execution obligation management
• How to become a trusted legal advisor who gives teams the autonomy to move quickly and confidently

We seek someone who is adaptable, hands-on, and comfortable pivoting in a fast-paced startup environment. You will independently own competing priorities across commercial contracting, data privacy and security, compliance, and broader business matters, building the processes and playbooks that help the business move quickly and confidentlyA commercial contracting generalist. You move comfortably across MSAs, SOWs, software and technology licenses, SaaS and cloud services agreements, NDAs, data processing and AI addenda, marketing arrangements, and vendor/supplier agreements, and you manage them through the full lifecycle rather than handing them off at signatureAn owner and a people-first communicator. You carry your work end to end, manage competing priorities independently, pivot quickly as a startup’s priorities shift, and communicate with clarity and purpose across every team and level of the organizationA builder, not just a reviewer. You create the templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and CLM workflows that let Sales, Channel, and Supply Chain scale without a legal bottleneck, and you reach for AI tooling to make legal operations faster and betterA practical, solutions-oriented advisor. You balance business priorities with thoughtful risk management and can tell a real risk from a theoretical one, which is what lets you lead end-to-end negotiations on high-value strategic transactions and close impactful deals without leaving the company exposedQualifications. A JD and active state bar membership, with 5+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department. Experience in a technology, semiconductor, hardware, chip manufacturing, or supplier environment is strongly preferredSupply chain & manufacturing. Experience drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements, including foundry, manufacturing, procurement, supply, logistics, and third-party logistics (3PL) agreementsData privacy & security. Experience advising on global data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues: DPAs, SCCs and transfer mechanisms, security terms, audit rights, breach and incident notification, and permitted data use, under frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, and APPIGeneral commercial contracting. Experience drafting, structuring, negotiating, executing, and managing complex commercial agreements across the full contract lifecycle (MSAs, SOWs, software and technology licenses, SaaS and cloud services agreements, NDAs, data processing (DPA) and AI addenda, hardware sales, channel partner agreements, marketing arrangements, and vendor/supplier agreements), including the templates, playbooks, and fallback positions that let the business contract at scaleCross-functional partnership. Experience providing practical legal advice across functions (Leadership, Engineering, Product, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Security, IT, People, and Operations), with exceptional negotiation and organizational skillsThis offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2). These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S. As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency. If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded