Strategic Partnerships, Silicon Ecosystem

Liquid AI•,

About The Position

Liquid AI is seeking a Strategic Partnerships professional to develop its silicon ecosystem and make Liquid AI a preferred AI foundation across edge computing platforms. The role focuses on building deep technical and commercial partnerships with silicon providers and other AI hardware companies, translating those relationships into integrated products, customer adoption, and distribution. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership and product, engineering, and go-to-market teams. Initially, they will lead selected partnerships end to end, with the opportunity to take broader ownership of Liquid AI’s silicon ecosystem as the organization grows. Success in the first year includes taking at least one silicon partnership from early discussions through a signed agreement, a defined joint product, and target customers pursued by both companies, with the program progressing without day-to-day involvement from the partnership lead.

Requirements

Proven track record developing and executing strategic partnerships that produce measurable outcomes, such as signed agreements, shipped integrations, and customers.
Experience working with silicon vendors, hardware platforms, OEMs, or embedded computing ecosystems.
Experience leading commercial negotiations and structuring partnerships involving technical integration, distribution, or joint go-to-market.
Product thinking, including the ability to define what a joint offering does, who buys it, and why.
Strong understanding of the AI ecosystem and the evolving roles of AI models, inference software, and hardware platforms.
Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business organizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI inference, machine learning infrastructure, or edge AI.
Familiarity with CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures and their software ecosystems.
Background in AI PCs, mobile devices, automotive, IoT, robotics, or embedded systems.
Existing relationships with major semiconductor companies.

Responsibilities

Own relationships with assigned silicon partners and build and execute strategic partnerships.
Run co-design programs between partner product groups and Liquid AI teams, and negotiate agreements through signature.
Work with partners to define joint products combining their hardware with Liquid AI models and agents.
Drive integration, optimization, and benchmarking with partner and Liquid AI engineering teams.
Take joint products to partner business groups, OEMs, and system integrators, and identify initial target customers.
Develop joint go-to-market efforts by involving Liquid AI’s go-to-market team in partner-sourced opportunities.
Lead joint product launches, demonstrations, and events such as CES.
Turn partnership commitments into plans with clear milestones and owners, and resolve technical, commercial, and organizational blockers.