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Salary: USD 100,000 - 500,000 / annual
Tenstorrent is hiring a Senior In-House Counsel to own key legal functions and serve as a hands-on partner across the organization. You will take end-to-end ownership of contract lifecycle management—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.
In this fast-paced startup environment, you will independently own competing priorities across commercial contracting, data privacy and security, compliance, and broader business matters. You will build the processes, templates, playbooks, and CLM workflows that enable the business to move quickly and confidently at scale.
You are a practical, solutions-oriented advisor who balances business priorities with thoughtful risk management and can distinguish real risks from theoretical ones. 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. You are a builder—creating templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and CLM workflows that let Sales, Channel, and Supply Chain scale without legal bottlenecks, and you leverage AI tooling to improve legal operations.
You carry your work end to end, manage competing priorities independently, pivot quickly as priorities shift, and communicate with clarity across every team and organizational level.
The role is hybrid or remote and can be based in Santa Clara, CA; Boston, MA; Toronto, ON; or Austin, TX.
REQUIREMENTS:
- JD and active state bar membership
- 5+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department
- Experience in technology, semiconductor, hardware, chip manufacturing, or supplier environment strongly preferred
- General commercial contracting: drafting, structuring, negotiating, executing, and managing complex commercial agreements across the full lifecycle (MSAs, SOWs, software and technology licenses, SaaS and cloud services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, AI addenda, hardware sales, channel partner agreements, marketing arrangements, vendor/supplier agreements), including templates, playbooks, and fallback positions
- Supply chain & manufacturing: drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements, including foundry, manufacturing, procurement, supply, logistics, and 3PL agreements
- Data privacy & security: advising on global data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues (DPAs, SCCs, transfer mechanisms, security terms, audit rights, breach notification, permitted data use) under frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, and APPI
- Cross-functional partnership: providing practical legal advice across functions (Leadership, Engineering, Product, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Security, IT, People, Operations) with exceptional negotiation and organizational skills
