Qualcomm AI SW Product Management 

United States, California, San Diego 

973270255

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

Directs a comprehensive product strategy with emphasis on h/w & s/w capabilities for artificial intelligence (AI) from product conception and definition through end of life. Functions as a central resource with design, process, manufacturing, quality, test, marketing, and distribution as the product(s) and/or product line(s) move through their lifecycle. Promotes use of new technologies and industry-leading trends. Directs those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

Preferred Competencies

• Strong understanding on the challenges and best practices of deploying AI/ML systems at scale

• Deep knowledge of neural network algorithms, trends in ML space and challenges associated with deployment.

• Experience training and/or deploying deep learning applications across CPU, GPU and NPU engines

• Background with CUDA or Open VINO or Core/Create ML would be a strong value add

• Experience in Gaming designs/ would be a strong plus

• Execution oriented and track record of driving on time deliverables to customers with aggressive schedules

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Passion to evangelize disruptive new technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management or engineering development experience in x86/Windows/Android ecosystem, product development process, release cadence and geo specific partners.

• Hands on knowledge of one or more – drivers, compilers, low level firmware, middleware, tools etc.

• Solid understanding of machine learning (ML) models and inferencing techniques on CPU, GPU or NPU

• In depth understanding of consumer, commercial, enterprise software products, APIs, use cases, user experience, performance/power consumption etc.

• Direct experience with OEMs, OS vendors, ISVs, open source community and product sustenance

• 10+ years of Product Management or related work experience. Solid understanding of machine learning (ML) models and inferencing techniques on general purpose and domain specific accelerators – NPU

• Ability to drive system level analysis of AI models and understand associated tradeoffs on model size, performance, accuracy/quality, power.

• Exposure to ecosystem scale on gaming platforms with exposure to machine learning is a strong plus

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own and drive Gaming AI Shiproom to accelerate and unblock GenAI-powered product development across Gaming

• Stay up to date on advancements in AI platform and tooling across the company, to unblock teams building with AI and accelerate our infra investments

• Identifies gaps in market based on complex analyses of market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands and provides this information to guide design conversations

• Leads team collaboration in the creation of business cases and validates cases for development of a new, complex product to ensure they are appropriate given business direction and asks appropriate questions to understand relevance of program to roadmap

• Markets new and complex products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and drives product launch efforts

• Prepares and delivers highly complex technical presentations regarding a product SW roadmap that explains and demonstrates products managed to customers

• Translates customer feedback and external environment into potential changes for the differentiated product roadmap and communicates this to senior leaders

• Directs and oversees the development of highly complex products or new products areas and services, independently; maintains communication with individuals across functional teams

• Completes product development and definition activities for a new or highly complex, owned product, including determination of cost and impact, and interacts with sales team to generate forecasts

• Holds self and team(s) accountable for remaining up to date on competitors, technological advances, and the product ecosystem and taking the lead on development and design innovation of new and complex products to articulate differentiation of products to customer and identify trends

• Communicates regularly with leadership following a communication plan to ensure cross-functional understanding of product plans for a product line

• Ensures successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that agreed upon KPIs and specifications are met for a new, complex product(s), upon delivery by engineering team

• Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop product goals (e.g., performance, cost, timeline, customer schedules), discuss product feasibility, and facilitate cross-functional decision making for products they own

• Drives effective cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that Engineering and other internal partners (i.e., program management) meet customer expectations, promised deadlines, and align with overall roadmap for product portfolio(s)

• Establishes long-term portfolio innovation strategy, product roadmaps, and IP strategies while identifying gaps and maintaining the best interest of customers and alignment to the product roadmap

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with little supervision.

• Making decisions that are significant in impact; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).

• Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.

• Exercising exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.

• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:

• Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).

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.

Pay range:

$171,000.00 - $256,000.00