Technical Account Manager (TAM) – Qualcomm Datacentre Team, Riyadh, KSA

Qualcomm; Riyad Al Khabra; On-site; SAR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Technical Account Manager to manage key customer projects within the Data Centre team. Responsibilities include overseeing technical aspects of hardware and software deployments while ensuring strong customer relationships and effective project management. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in cloud data centres, excellent communication skills, and a relevant degree.

Benefits

Salary including housing & transport allowance

Stock and performance-related bonus

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

Child Education Allowance

Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud data centre experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Familiar with cloud reliability requirements and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical relationships and oversee customer projects.
• Ensure customer expectations are met throughout the project lifecycle.
• Engage with customers to review project requirements and gaps.

Skills

Project management

Customer relationship management

Cloud computing

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s or PhD in relevant fields

Tools

Programming languages (C, C++, Java, Python)

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

About Us

Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by Qualcomm every day, including 5G‑enabled smartphones that double as pro‑level cameras and gaming devices, smarter vehicles and cities, and the technology behind the smart, connected factories that manufactured your latest purchase. Qualcomm 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You’ll find our technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day.

About the Role

Qualcomm is leveraging its expertise in hardware‑accelerated AI to deliver powerful, energy‑efficient generative AI and computer vision workloads for data centres. As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) on the Qualcomm Data Centre team in Riyadh, you will manage key customer projects and oversee technical aspects of hardware and software deployments for deep learning inference acceleration at rack‑scale. This role requires strong technical leadership, project management skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the sales account manager by leading the management of the technical relationships between the customer and Qualcomm’s Data Centre business unit
• Provide overall project management for the customer project from concept through commercial deployment
• For projects under development: drive customer issues to resolution, mitigate escalations and set expectations with the customer by collaborating with engineering on a daily basis
• For projects under evaluation: engage with the customer by organizing trainings, reviewing the design concept, gathering project requirements, and analysing the gaps & risk involved in commercial deployment
• Align customer milestones with Qualcomm’s hardware and software deliverable timeline by collaborating with product and program management
• Review the customer portfolio on a monthly basis, prioritize customer projects and provide justification for technical support resource allocation

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• 8+ years cloud data centre experience.
• 4+ years of managing large scale data centre projects and customer relationships
• Ability to proactively manage customer expectations to influence customer relations and design decisions
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively present information to a range of audiences
• Familiarity with cloud reliability requirements, SLAs, and instance qualification processes.
• Excellent communication and problem‑solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Program Manager, managing complex technical projects in a SW environment
• Experience leading and directing engineers that are in independent functional organizations.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
• Preferred: Master’s, Business Administration and/or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

What’s on Offer

Apart from working with great people, we offer the below:

• Salary including housing & transport allowance
• Stock (RSU's) and performance related bonus
• 16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Child Education Allowance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e‑mail [e-mail] or call Qualcomm's toll‑free number. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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.

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