Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Partnerships Manager, Infrastructure Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking an Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Partnerships Manager in Sunnyvale, CA, to define forward‑scanning commercial pillars for semiconductor sourcing. You will lead upstream technology sourcing, ecosystem development, and strategic partnerships to de‑risk 3–5 year hardware bottlenecks.

You will collaborate with silicon architects and platform engineers on PoCs, JDAs, and co‑investment models with startups, OSATs, and foundries, shaping high‑impact procurement across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
• Experience in advanced packaging, interconnect, or thermal, memory category or commodity management, contract negotiation and supplier development.
• Master's degree or MBA and 10+ years in semiconductor technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial evaluation and technology readiness for packaging, interconnect, and thermal tech.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to enable access to early‑stage technologies via JDAs and co‑investment models.
• Map supply chains, model risks, and architect strategies to ensure access to critical solutions.
• Drive venture and inorganic due diligence for partnerships, licensing, IP, and startups.
• Align stakeholders across engineering, finance, supply chain and venture for smooth transitions.

Skills

Procurement & supply chain mgmt

Advanced packaging

Contract negotiation

Supplier development

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/engineering field

Master's degree or MBA

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Austin, TX, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
• Experience in advanced packaging, interconnect, or thermal, memory category or commodity management, contract negotiation and supplier development.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a technical or engineering field or MBA.
• 10 years of experience driving multi-year semiconductor technology strategy, commercial agreement structuring in advanced packaging, interconnect, or thermal ecosystem development across foundries, OSATs, and global hardware supply chains.
• Experience working with Startups and Venturing ecosystem.
• Direct technical and commercial experience in one or more core areas: 2.5D/3D semiconductor packaging, advanced substrates, optical interconnects / silicon photonics, or high-heat-flux chip/package thermal management.

About the job

Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.

As an Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Partnerships Manager, you will be part of the team directly defining the forward-scanning commercial pillar of Google's Silicon Sourcing Center of Excellence (SSCE).

In this role, you will lead engineering-specific initiatives and serve as the domain technology and commercial architect for Advanced Packaging (2.5D/3IC), Optical I/O, and Chip-to-Rack Thermal Technologies within SCoE's Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Investments pillar. Your primary mandate is to de-risk multi-generational hardware bottlenecks 3-5 years ahead of High-Volume Manufacturing (HVM) by leading upstream technology sourcing, ecosystem development, and strategic partnerships.

You will collaborate closely with custom silicon architects and platform hardware engineers to structure and drive proof-of-concept (PoC) engagements, Statements of Work (SOWs), and Joint Development Agreements (JDAs) with emerging startups, Tier-1 foundries, Outsourced Assembly and Test (OSATs), and Research and Development (R&D) institutes. Through these partnerships, you will validate disruptive packaging, optical, and thermal technologies using engineering and manufacturing silicon test vehicles.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next‑generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Serve as the domain technology radar across packaging, 2.5D/3IC scaling, Optical I/O, advanced substrates, and thermal management to support and lead commercial evaluation and technology readiness for Google Cloud products.
• Partner with technical teams and cross‑functional stakeholders across Google to enable access to early‑stage technologies via JDAs and co‑investment models, ensuring intellectual property and financial protection.
• Map Tier‑N supply chains and model risks to architect strategies guaranteeing access to critical solutions, monitoring technology readiness gates prior to HVM before transitioning de‑risked solutions to COT and Product Sourcing leads.
• Lead venture and inorganic diligence for commercial partnerships, licensing, IP acquisition, and due diligence with golden component startups; partner with Corporate Development, GV, CapitalG, and Finance to evaluate deep‑tech startups.
• Drive cross‑Google stakeholder alignment to establish buy‑in, evaluation rubrics, and roadmap consensus across engineering, finance, supply chain, and venture, aligning upstream intercepts with product deployment timelines and enabling seamless commercial transitions.

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