Sr. In-House Counsel in Toronto

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. 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.

Who You Are

• A practical, solutions-oriented advisor who balances business priorities with thoughtful risk management.
• A commercial contracting generalist who moves 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.
• A builder who creates templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and CLM workflows that let Sales, Channel, and Supply Chain scale without a legal bottleneck.
• An owner and a people-first communicator who carries work end to end, manages competing priorities independently, and communicates with clarity and purpose.

What We Need

• 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.
• Experience drafting, structuring, negotiating, executing, and managing complex commercial agreements across the full contract lifecycle.
• Experience drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements.
• Experience advising on global data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues.
• Experience providing practical legal advice across functions with exceptional negotiation and organizational skills.

What You Will Learn

• How to help architect the legal foundation for a company building the future of computing.
• How to advise 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.
• How to design legal infrastructure that scales: templates, playbooks, and policies built for regional and global consistency.
• How to become a trusted legal advisor who gives teams the autonomy to move quickly and confidently.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made. Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.