Silicon Ecosystem Partnerships Director

FuriosaAI is seeking a Silicon Ecosystem Partnerships Director to lead and expand strategic partnerships within the semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem. The role focuses on building relationships with key partners, developing partnership strategies, and enhancing supply chain resilience while supporting product execution and go-to-market initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Identify partnership opportunities that can improve product execution, supply-chain resilience, technology differentiation, cost structure, and market credibility
• Serve as a key external-facing representative for the company with senior executives across the semiconductor ecosystem
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, product, legal, and finance teams to align on technical requirements, commercial terms, program timelines, and partner deliverables
• Support licensing and partnership discussions with IP and EDA vendors, ensuring alignment with product requirements, cost targets, and roadmap needs
• Help evaluate partner capabilities across process technology, packaging, design services, verification, physical design, manufacturing readiness, and long-term support
• Develop strategic relationships across advanced packaging, CoWoS/2.5D/3D integration, HBM, substrate, interposer, OSAT, and backend manufacturing ecosystems
• Work closely with operations and engineering teams to identify risks and opportunities across the supply chain
• Help secure partner support for capacity planning, cost transparency, technical enablement, and production readiness
• Support cross-functional planning around manufacturability, yield improvement, cost optimization, and delivery timelines
• Partner with business development, sales, marketing, and product teams to strengthen the company’s ecosystem narrative and market positioning
• Support joint marketing activities, executive briefings, customer events, press releases, partner announcements, and industry events
• Help position the company as a credible AI infrastructure player through strong ecosystem validation and partner engagement
• Develop messaging and materials that highlight the company’s technology differentiation, production readiness, roadmap strength, and supply-chain resilience
• Build trusted relationships with senior executives and decision-makers at key ecosystem partners
• Act as a single point of coordination for high-priority strategic partnerships where needed
• Prepare executive briefing materials, partnership proposals, negotiation positions, and internal alignment documents
• Represent the company in partner meetings, industry forums, executive briefings, and strategic negotiations
• Work closely with engineering, product, operations, finance, legal, sales, and marketing teams to drive internal alignment on partner strategy and execution
• Translate technical and business requirements into actionable partnership plans
• Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies across the silicon roadmap and work proactively to resolve them through ecosystem engagement
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on partnership progress, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions