Qualcomm Senior Product Manager - Automotive Software Safety Robustness Reliability 

United States, California, San Diego 

565183055

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

The position requires deep expertise in automotive software (including functional safety/ISO26262) development or automotive software product management, with strong focus on Functional Safety, Automotive software development process(quality), Software/ Systems architecture at vehicle level, RTOS (Linux, QNX), BSP, Embedded Software, Safety/Systems Software expertise (especially on camera /image/video processing, application level safety and machine vision). Functional-safety (ISO26262) expertise/experience would be preferred.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to collaborate and influence multiple stakeholders in Product Management, Business Development, HW and SW Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Sales teams are essential requirements.

This is an office-based position 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:

• 10+ years of Automotive SW dev/management (incl. requirements/systems) experience.

• 5+ years experience in leading/successfully delivering Safety related Software products.

• Expertise in defining functional safety requirements at systems/hardware and software level - including Expertise in defining end to end safety concepts for mixed-critical systems.

• 3+ years experience with leading functional safety software design/architecture and Safety analysis.

• Strong Experience with automotive software development - process maturity, quality metrics (incl. robustness, freedom from Interference and software reliability)

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to drive/lead engineering discussions with deep technical understanding/knowledge on one or more areas related to Functional Safety (ISO26262), Automotive SW development process, software quality, including BSP, drivers, OS, RTOS, AUTOSAR, ADAS/AD middleware, infotainment solutions/software, application stack, Camera sub systems, AI/ML/Neural network processing, Ethernet, Communication protocols, , OpenCL, CUDA and V&V process.

• Define use cases, help with safety software architecture, write requirements for SDKs, BSP, ADAS/AD software/middleware and the value proposition for safety/quality.

• Work with customers and internal engineering teams on RFIs, RFQs, and system-level use case modelling & analysis (with focus on Safety and robustness/quality).

• Develops product goals, (e.g., features, performance, cost, timeline, schedules), defines metrics/KPIs, performs product feasibility, and facilitates cross-functional decision making for products they own.

• Together with advanced knowledge of industry trends and/or competitors’ products, Translate customer requirements, feedback, and market dynamics into potential feature requests to ensure a high quality software product.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, innovative environment, including experience in discussing complex ideas with partners, customers, and executives.

Generic responsibilities

• Validates business cases and determines relevance to organizational strategy; contributes to the creation of the product roadmap to advance organizational strategy and goals.

• Reviews, prepares, and delivers technical presentations regarding product roadmaps, RFI/RFQ/RFP, and/or proposals to demonstrate and market product portfolios to customers and/or prospective customers, and integrates customer feedback into project roadmaps.

• Serves as the authority in the creation of a differentiated roadmap for all safety product portfolio, facilitates decision making between cross-functional leaders, and achieves buy-in from internal and external stakeholders.

• Drives cross-functional conversations around the development of a software product portfolio that meets customer needs and aligns with Qualcomm SoC hardware product roadmaps.

• Develops/reviews innovative product development plans, drives and creates/defines software product requirements for multiple new and emerging technologies/products, including determination of cost and impact, and continually reviews ROI of specific products.

• Reviews identified gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and makes software safety related decisions on how these gaps impact roadmaps.

• Drives communication plan and communicates appropriately with internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior management to build relationships, ensure alignment and buy-in, and achieve product safety/quality/robustness goals as well as manage any planned changes.

• 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 software product portfolio(s).

• Translates customer needs, product roadmaps, and organizational strategy into successful software product(s) and facilitates decisions necessary for product delivery by partnering with cross-functional leaders.

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