Lead, Intellectual Property and Electronic Design Automation Sourcing

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.

In this role, you will join the Silicon Sourcing Center of Excellence (SSCE) to support our AI and cloud infrastructure. You will connect hardware engineering and global supply chain execution by managing the commercial life-cycle for silicon operations. You will source standard compute and custom AI accelerators (TPUs), direct partnerships, and execute early-stage strategic investments to secure resilient supply, generate cost efficiencies, and support Google's technology roadmap.

The Lead for IP and EDA Sourcing is the strategic architect of the commercial frameworks that allow Google’s silicon engineers to design chips. You will manage the foundational "Enablement and Tools" pillar, ensuring Google has the most advanced third-party Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools at the most enaged costs. Without this role, the technical roadmap for TPUs and gSOCs is stalled by licensing bottlenecks, misaligned tool integrations, or prohibitive NRE (Non-Recurring Engineering) costs.

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: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial evaluation, licensing, and integration of third-party IP blocks. Manage the entire life-cycle of IP quality and technical compliance.
• Own the executive relationship with EDA tool vendors. Ensure the company possesses the requisite licenses for complex chip design and emulation.
• Develop partnership agreements and defining scopes of work for new features and tool capabilities.
• Apply the SSCE’s philosophy to the software and IP space, analyzing royalty structures and license fees to optimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for every chip.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in the semiconductor industry within silicon design enablement, IP licensing, or EDA commercial management.
• Experience managing multi-year commercial agreements with EDA (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence) or IP vendors.
• Experience defining Scopes of Work (SoW) and managing feature delivery timelines in collaboration with hardware engineering teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technical or engineering field or MBA.
• Experience managing the intersection of EDA tools and Foundry process nodes (specifically sub-5nm or leading-edge nodes).
• Experience with modeling for software/IP and managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for ASIC programs.
• Experience evaluating third-party IP for technical compliance, quality standards, and integration risks.
• Strong professional network within the semiconductor IP and EDA ecosystem to facilitate early access to emerging design technologies.