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Salary: USD 175,000 - 225,000 / annual
ChipAgents is building an AI-native platform that revolutionizes chip design through agentic-AI workflows and a domain-specific LLM called Renoir. The company partners with top-10 semiconductor companies, hyperscalers, and innovative startups to accelerate RTL development, functional verification, and formal verification.
As Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager, you will own the external relationships that drive ChipAgents' growth, sitting at the intersection of product, R&D, and go-to-market strategy. You'll translate the platform's needs for compute, data, foundry access, and strategic customer relationships into concrete partnerships with industry leaders.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing strategic relationships with cloud providers, driving co-selling motions and providing strategic input to product architecture
- Building and maintaining relationships with semiconductor foundries to support R&D and productization at advanced nodes
- Identifying and managing relationships with data and compute providers to advance model training efforts
- Structuring complex, multithreaded agreements with lighthouse customers covering commercial, investment, and product co-development terms
- Working cross-functionally with product and R&D teams to identify partnership opportunities and inform build-versus-partner decisions
You'll need 5–7 years of experience in partnerships or growth strategy at AI-native companies, consulting, venture capital, or private equity. Strong track record building and managing strategic relationships with large technical organizations (cloud providers, foundries, or similar) is essential. You must be comfortable structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders, with strong analytical and communication skills to translate technical needs into partnership strategy.
Nice-to-haves include experience with semiconductor foundries or hardware design workflows, structuring partnerships involving compute or data access for AI model training, background in the semiconductor or EDA industry, and existing relationships with cloud providers, hyperscalers, or foundries.
The company offers two engineering-centric offices in the Bay Area with free parking, private gym, and free lunch, drinks, and snacks.
