Silicon Ecosystem Partnerships Director - Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 12 June 2026 by the employer.
Deepen relationships across the silicon ecosystem, including foundries, ASIC design partners, IP vendors, EDA companies, advanced packaging partners, and infrastructure technology partners.
About the role
This role will lead and expand strategic partnerships across the semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem, building deep relationships with key ecosystem partners.
What you'll do
- Build and manage strategic relationships with semiconductor ecosystem partners, including foundries, ASIC design partners, IP providers, EDA vendors, advanced packaging providers, system partners, and infrastructure technology companies.
- Develop a clear ecosystem partnership strategy aligned with the company’s silicon roadmap, product milestones, commercial priorities, and long-term platform strategy.
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, product, legal, and finance teams to align on technical requirements, commercial terms, program timelines, and partner deliverables.
- Develop strategic relationships across advanced packaging, CoWoS/2.5D/3D integration, HBM, substrate, interposer, OSAT, and backend manufacturing ecosystems.
- Partner with business development, sales, marketing, and product teams to strengthen the company’s ecosystem narrative and market positioning.
- Build trusted relationships with senior executives and decision-makers at key ecosystem partners and represent the company in partner meetings, industry forums, executive briefings, and strategic negotiations.
- Translate technical and business requirements into actionable partnership plans.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor, AI infrastructure, silicon partnerships, business development, strategic alliances, or product management roles.
- Strong understanding of the semiconductor ecosystem, including foundry, ASIC design, IP, EDA, advanced packaging, memory, substrate, OSAT, and system-level partners.
- Experience working with senior executives and cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, legal, finance, sales, and marketing.
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills, including experience with partnership structures, licensing models, supply agreements, and joint development discussions.
- Technical fluency in AI accelerators, SoCs, chiplets, advanced nodes, packaging, HBM, PCIe, Ethernet, and data center infrastructure.
- Proven ability to build trust with external partners and drive complex, multi-party initiatives.
Nice to have
- Experience working with semiconductor ecosystem partners in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, or the United States.
- Prior experience at a semiconductor startup, AI infrastructure company, fabless semiconductor company, foundry, ASIC provider, IP vendor, EDA company, or system OEM/ODM.
- Familiarity with AI inference, hyperscale infrastructure, data center deployment, or high-performance computing markets.
- Existing relationships with senior stakeholders across the semiconductor supply chain.
Skills: semiconductor ecosystem, foundries, ASIC design partners, advanced packaging, supply chain
This role has been open 84 days — well above the 48-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
176
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$220k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | FuriosaAI | All employers we track in this specialty (176 roles · 49 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 176 |
| Median days open | 84 d | 48 d (+36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $220k |
Skills observed across this category: semiconductor ecosystem, foundries, ASIC design partners, advanced packaging, supply chain
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 48 d
- NVIDIA · 21 open roles · median 34 d
- AMD · 19 open roles · median 27 d
- Synopsys · 14 open roles · median 48 d
- Arm Holdings · 10 open roles · median 85 d
- Astera Labs · 6 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 176 open Technical Program Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 49 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.