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LAYIQ - Principal Silicon Operations Engineering Lead at Microsoft

EDA Commercial Strategy & Negotiation Leadership
Serve as Microsoft's lead negotiator for EDA, design IP, and silicon engineering technology agreements, owning deal strategy, negotiation planning, and term structures through executive approval and signature.
Define the multi-year commercial strategy across the EDA supplier portfolio, including renewal sequencing, competitive leverage, bundling and unbundling decisions, and alternative sourcing options.
Build negotiation business cases with modeled scenarios, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, benchmarking, and executive recommendations that balance engineering capability against cost and risk.
Partner with Procurement and Legal to structure enterprise agreements, licensing constructs, and contract terms that scale with silicon program demand and protect Microsoft's long-term flexibility.
Own post-signature contract governance including amendments, true-ups, entitlement compliance, audit readiness, and escalation management.
EDA Portfolio, Licensing & Cost Optimization
Own planning, forecasting, reporting, and financial governance for Microsoft's EDA and engineering tooling portfolio.
Drive license optimization through consumption analytics, peak-demand modeling, license pooling strategies, and reallocation across silicon programs, phases, and geographies.
Partner closely with Finance on budget, accrual, and forecast accuracy, and deliver quantified savings and cost-avoidance targets year over year.
Establish demand management and chargeback models that create accountability for tool consumption across engineering teams.
Supplier Relationship & Performance Governance
Own executive-level relationships with EDA vendors.
Define and operate supplier KPIs, SLAs, quarterly business reviews, roadmap reviews, and escalation frameworks.
Hold suppliers accountable for support quality, roadmap commitments, and delivery against contracted outcomes, and drive continuous improvement plans where performance gaps exist.
Represent Microsoft in supplier executive forums and industry engagements on EDA strategy and ecosystem direction.
Technical Partnership with Silicon & CAD Engineering
Partner with CAD, design, verification, and physical design teams to translate technical tool requirements into sourcing strategy and commercial outcomes.
Build and maintain the multi-year EDA tool roadmap aligned to silicon program milestones, node transitions, and methodology changes.
Evaluate emerging capabilities, including AI-assisted design, cloud and HPC burst compute, and new methodology flows, and drive adoption decisions with engineering leadership.
Ensure tooling strategy is aligned with engineering compute capacity planning and Cloud/HPC infrastructure investments.
Business Intelligence, Analytics & AI Enablement
Own the analytics strategy for EDA d o l la r spend, license utilization
, supplier performance, and portfolio health.
Develop executive dashboards and KPI frameworks that convert tooling, contract, and consumption data into actionable decisions.
Apply AI and automation to renewal readiness, entitlement tracking, contract intelligence, and consumption forecasting to increase speed and accuracy of commercial decision making.
Executive Engagement & Cross-Functional Leadership
Serve as a trusted advisor to silicon engineering executives on tooling investment, supplier risk, and commercial strategy.
Lead executive business reviews, negotiation readouts, and investment decision forums, simplifying complexity into clear recommendations.
Build durable partnerships across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Legal, IT, and external partners, driving outcomes without direct authority.
Raise negotiation, supplier management, and commercial acumen across the broader silicon operations community through mentorship and reusable frameworks.

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) experience working on or leading projects from beginning-to-end.
10+ years of experience in commercial negotiation, strategic sourcing, supplier or vendor management, technical program management, technology strategy, or technology business operations.
5+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale negotiations, contracts, or licensing agreements, including pricing models, commercial terms, and contract structuring.
3+ years of experience managing a technology, licensing, services, or supplier portfolio with direct budget or financial accountability.
Experience partnering and consulting across engineering, finance, procurement, and legal teams to deliver cross-functional business outcomes.
Experience negotiating or managing EDA, design IP, or semiconductor design tool agreements.
Semiconductor, silicon engineering, or hardware development experience, including familiarity with the silicon development lifecycle and CAD flows (Front-End, Physical Design, Analog).
Experience with software licensing models, entitlement management, consumption-based pricing, and license optimization at enterprise scale.
Experience defining supplier governance frameworks, KPIs, SLAs, and executive business review cadences for multi-million-dollar engagements.
Experience building analytics and executive reporting (for example, Power BI) to drive spend, utilization, or supplier performance decisions.
Experience applying AI and automation to contracting, sourcing, or operational workflows.
Experience supporting global engineering organizations in a highly matrixed environment.
Management consulting or professional services background spanning RFPs, SOWs, engagement pricing models, and managed services governance.

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