Densityai
Silicon Supply Chain
Mountain View, CA. Posted 4 months ago
The role
The candidate will own commercial relationships with foundries, OSATs, and test partners for custom silicon. They will manage strategy, negotiation, capacity, cost, and supply continuity from wafer to packaged device.
What you will do
- Own the commercial relationship with foundries, OSATs, and test/ATE vendors
- Negotiate agreements including MSAs, MPAs/MPSAs, NDAs, SOWs, capacity, pricing, and tooling/NRE terms
- Forecast semiconductor commodity landscape trends and capacity/pricing dynamics
- Build and own the silicon cost model to drive negotiations and design-for-cost decisions
- Secure capacity and supply continuity across nodes and packaging technologies
- Partner with engineering and program management on commercial strategy and technical execution
- Translate technical realities into cost, margin, and program-risk outcomes
Required qualifications
- First-hand experience managing the commercial relationship with a major logic foundry
- Experience managing at least one leading OSAT or test/ATE vendor
- Proven ownership of MSA/MPA/NDA/SOW negotiations with foundry, OSAT, and/or test partners
- Fluency in custom-silicon/ASIC economics
- Working command of technical drivers like yields, test coverage, and qualification flows
- An established network across the foundry/OSAT/test ecosystem
- Working understanding of advanced packaging specifically CoWoS-L and CoWoS-R
Nice to have
- Took a custom ASIC from tape-out through high-volume production, owning supply commercials end-to-end
- Background in custom silicon, hyperscale ASIC, or merchant/AI-silicon programs
- Hands-on with advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, CoWoS-L / CoWoS-R, chiplets, EMIB, substrate) and related OSAT/foundry capacity dynamics
Benefits
- equity grant per company guidelines
- medical / dental / vision
- 401(k)
- standard PTO
Before you apply
- Work authorization is required at start
- Aspects of this role may involve access to information subject to U.S. export controls (EAR/ITAR)
About the company
DensityAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.