Silicon Ecosystem Partnerships Director
FuriosaAI is a South Korean AI semiconductor company building energy-efficient inference accelerators, servers, and software for enterprise and cloud AI deployments.
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About FuriosaAI
FuriosaAI develops the RNGD AI inference accelerator and NXT RNGD Server, alongside a software toolchain for compiling, optimizing, and deploying LLM and agentic-AI workloads.
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About the Role
You will lead strategic partnerships across the semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem. You will align partner strategy with silicon roadmaps, negotiate commercial and licensing arrangements, coordinate cross-functional execution, and represent the company in executive meetings and industry forums.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor, AI infrastructure, silicon partnerships, business development, strategic alliances, product management, or related roles
- Understanding of foundry, ASIC design, IP, EDA, advanced packaging, memory, substrate, OSAT, and system-level partners
- Experience working with senior executives and cross-functional teams
- Commercial and negotiation skills involving 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
- Communication, presentation, and executive writing skills
Responsibilities
- Build and manage strategic relationships with semiconductor ecosystem partners
- Develop an ecosystem partnership strategy aligned with silicon roadmaps and commercial priorities
- Identify opportunities to improve product execution, supply-chain resilience, cost structure, and market credibility
- Coordinate technical requirements, commercial terms, program timelines, and partner deliverables across internal functions
- Support licensing and partnership discussions with IP and EDA vendors
- Evaluate partner capabilities across process technology, packaging, design services, verification, manufacturing readiness, and support
- Develop relationships across advanced packaging, HBM, substrate, interposer, OSAT, and backend manufacturing ecosystems
- Support capacity planning, cost transparency, technical enablement, production readiness, manufacturability, yield improvement, and delivery planning
- Support joint marketing, executive briefings, customer events, press releases, partner announcements, and industry events
- Prepare executive briefing materials, partnership proposals, negotiation positions, and internal alignment documents
- Provide senior leadership with updates on partnership progress, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions