Qualcomm Senior Product Manager - AI Developer Advocate 

United States, California, San Diego 

224346096

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

As a senior member of the team responsible for the AI application developer experience on Snapdragon compute platform, you will have the opportunity to provide AI application developers with sample applications. These will include clear use of interfaces and templates which will allow developers to plug in their proprietary models to first test their model on Qualcomm hardware (such as Windows on Snapdragon) and then access valuable performance metrics which will further be used to optimize the model. You will also work with internal application/customer engineering teams to address any queries from application developer ecosystem on use of Snapdragon AI APIs and support enhancements to the sample applications as needed. Through this experience, you will be well positioned to drive improvements into the SW stack including SDK, Tools, and documentation. This role will require you to work closely with development leads, software and hardware architects, project engineers, product managers, customer engineers, OEMs, OS partners and application developers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop plans to engage with external developers focused on at least one of the following application areas: IoT, Automotive, Microsoft device ecosystem.

• Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware engineering, developer marketing and product management teams.

• Understand trends in ML model design, and workflow through application developer engagements and latest academic research.

• Develop and ensure sample application comprehensiveness for AI on Linux/Windows on Snapdragon to cover the gamut of models used, and use-cases including use of additional snapdragon optimized libraries outside of Snapdragon AI functions.

• Interface with 3rd party application developers and other cross-site and cross-functional teams to arrive at easy-to-use sample application, and documentation that are directly leveraged by 3rd party app developers for Windows on Snapdragon

• Contribute new features and designs to the Qualcomm AI toolkit to enhance the workflow experience of Application Developers

This is an office based position located in San Diego, CA.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.

• 4+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

• Excellent understanding of AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), GPU programming, and parallel computing. Experience with large language models/foundational models development and deployment a plus

• Good Understanding of complete AI Software stack and familiarity with AI performance tuning techniques on GPU, NPU based systems

• Experience with development of end-to-end AI application on Windows using Windows ML, DirectML

• Experience in full workflow involved in training and deployment of models on servers and porting to client Windows compute platforms involving model inference deployment and performance tuning

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C+• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical and technical stakeholders.

• Strong leadership abilities to motivate and guide development teams.

• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills

• Demonstrated ability to learn, think and adapt in a fast-changing environment

• Familiarity with software development methodologies, version control systems, and agile project management practices.

• 12+ years’ experience in application development involving High Performance Computing with 5+ years in AI application development on Windows

• Bachelors in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

$162,400.00 - $243,600.00