In-House Counsel, Tenstorrent
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Next-generation computing company building computers for AI
Job no longer available
Next-generation computing company building computers for AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring unique solutions to the problems facing AI and machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- JD degree and state bar membership
- 4+ years experience in a law firm or in-house legal department
- Extensive experience working with startups, specifically in the semiconductor space and/or chip manufacturers or suppliers preferred
- Exceptional negotiation skills
- Experience providing solutions-oriented, practical legal advice to a variety of stakeholders
- Demonstrated excellence in analytical, written, and verbal communication
- Interpersonal skills and confidence to interact comfortably with employees at all levels of the organization including C-Suite
- Strong organizational skills, including ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects under deadline pressure
- Corporate transaction experience preferred
- As this position will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency information and/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process
What the job involves
- You’ll be responsible for addressing a wide range of legal matters, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, minimizing risks for the company, acting as a trusted legal advisor across all internal business units, and representing the company with our external partners and vendors
- Provide cross-functional legal advice to Leadership, Engineering, Product, HR/Recruiting, Sales, Software and Operations teams
- Draft, review and negotiate a variety of complex agreements including, but not limited to: leases, employment contracts, licensing agreements, NDA’s, MSA’s, SOW’s, SaaS, LOI’s, RMA’s, corporate governance documents, purchase agreements, terms and conditions and related paper
- Support business development and strategy teams involving Tenstorrent’s commercial partnerships
- Think creatively to address novel legal issues raised by modern semiconductor technology
- Monitor development in changes on industry specific regulations and legal matters, and provide advice on compliance with applicable laws and regulations while ensuring that appropriate risk management strategies are in place
Our take
Tenstorrent is a US- and Canada-based semiconductor startup specializing in processors for AI workloads. Rather than building gneral-purpose CPUs or GPus, the company develops custom chips and sofrware optimized for running moder AI models. As demand for AI accelerates, and as a global chip shortage reshapes the semiconductor industry, these trends have become strong tailwinds for Tenstorrent.
The company’s unique approach is to build for this future software, which it believes will be written at a higher level. Combining this with conditional computing, Tenstorrent supports a scalable distributed network approach that is analogous to a human brain.
While the market for specialized AI hardware is destined to be gigantic, the company has to compete with a plethora of hopeful startups (as well as major tech companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm). That said, Tenstorrent boasts an excellent trajectory so far, with its latest moves including unveiling its high-end Wormhole AI processors, and a partnership with LG which will see the development of chips for "Affectionate Intelligence".
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2024
$693m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$300m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company HQ
Flemingdon Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Jim Keller
(CEO)Previously Senior VP of Silicon Engineering at Intel Corporation, VP of Autopilot Hardware Engineering at Tesla, Corporate VP and Chief Architect at AMD, and VP of Engineering at Apple.
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