Sr. In-House Counsel

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

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.

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 confidently.

This role is hybrid or remote and can be based out of Santa Clara, CA, Boston, MA, Toronto, ON or Austin, TX.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

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.

A 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 signature.

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.

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.

What We Need

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.

General 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 scale.

Supply chain & manufacturing . Experience drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements, including foundry, manufacturing, procurement, supply, logistics, and third-party logistics (3PL) agreements.

Data privacy & security . Exp …