Sr. In-House Counsel

Overview

The organization is hiring a Senior In-House Counsel to own key legal functions and serve as a hands-on partner to teams across the business. This role provides end-to-end ownership of the legal areas supported, guiding internal stakeholders through the full contract lifecycle—from intake and drafting through negotiation, execution, and ongoing management—while minimizing legal and compliance risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end contract management for supported legal matters, including intake, drafting, negotiation, execution, and ongoing administration.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, external partners, and vendors.
• Manage matters across competing priorities, including:
  • Commercial contracting
  • Data privacy and security
  • Compliance
  • Broader business legal needs
• Build and improve legal processes and playbooks that enable faster contracting at scale.
• Develop templates, fallback positions, and CLM (contract lifecycle management) workflows to support Sales, Channel, and Supply Chain.
• Advise on complex commercial agreements, including negotiation and organizational requirements.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) and active state bar membership.
• 5+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department.
• Strongly preferred experience in a technology, semiconductor, hardware, chip manufacturing, or supplier environment.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, structuring, negotiating, executing, and managing complex commercial agreements across the full contract lifecycle, including (as applicable):
  • MSA/SOW
  • Software and technology licenses
  • SaaS and cloud services agreements
  • NDAs
  • Data processing agreements (DPAs) and AI addenda
  • Marketing arrangements
  • Vendor/supplier agreements
  • Hardware sales
  • Channel partner agreements
• Experience drafting and negotiating supply chain and manufacturing agreements, including foundry, manufacturing, procurement, supply, logistics, and third-party logistics (3PL) agreements.
• Experience advising on global data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues, including DPAs, SCCs and transfer mechanisms, security terms, audit rights, breach/incident notification, and permitted data use under frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, and APPI.
• Experience providing practical legal advice across cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Leadership, Engineering, Product, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Security, IT, People, and Operations) with exceptional negotiation and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting novel legal and compliance issues related to modern semiconductor and AI technology.
• Familiarity with CLM workflows spanning intake, template generation, review and negotiation, approval routing, signature, storage, and post-execution obligation management.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation range for all engineers: $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets.
• Actual offer depends on experience, skills, education, background, and location.
• Highly competitive compensation package and benefits.
• Equal opportunity employer.

Location

Hybrid or remote. Based out of Santa Clara, CA, Boston, MA, Toronto, ON or Austin, TX.

U.S. Export Compliance Notice

This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the organization is required to ensure compliance when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2). These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S. Because the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency. If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded.