Tenstorrent is hiring a Senior In-House Counsel to own key legal functions and serve as a hands-on partner to teams across the organizationIn 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 vendorsHow to help architect the legal foundation for a company building the future of computing and scaling as a global, open-hardware technology companyHow to advise Leadership, Engineering, Product, and other teams on novel legal, compliance, privacy, and risk issues involving modern semiconductor and AI technologyHow 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 siliconHow 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 managementHow to become a trusted legal advisor who gives teams the autonomy to move quickly and confidentlyWe seek someone who is adaptable, hands-on, and comfortable pivoting in a rapid-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 confidently A commercial contracting generalist. You move comfortably across MSAs, SOWs, software and technology licenses, Saa S 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 signature An 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 organization A 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 better A 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 exposed Qualifications. 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 preferred Supply chain & manufacturing. Experience drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements, including foundry, manufacturing, procurement, supply, logistics, and third-party logistics (3 PL) agreements Data privacy & security. Experience advising on global data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data

📌 Senior In-House Counsel (Toronto)
🏢 Tenstorrent
📍 Toronto