Director, Industrial & Edge AI Processors

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Director of Product Management to own the definition, roadmap, and lifecycle of processors for Industrial and Edge AI markets.

Lead cross-functional teams to translate workloads into differentiated SoCs, software plans, and hardware platforms for production. The role covers compute across CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP, real-time control, and connectivity, with responsibilities spanning MRD/PRD creation, architecture decisions, and customer engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• Advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

Responsibilities

• Own processor definition, roadmap, pricing inputs, and lifecycle management.
• Develop MRDs and PRDs translating workloads into silicon, hardware, BSP, and software requirements.
• Lead trade-offs across performance, power, cost, die size, memory, I/O, and software scope.
• Drive cross-functional execution with engineering and software leads to deliver SoC, reference hardware, BSP, middleware, and validation plan.
• Define requirements across CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP and real-time compute, vision, and memory hierarchy.
• Architect for latency, determinism, bandwidth, QoS, and mixed Linux/RTOS domains.
• Translate motor and motion-control workloads into timers, PWM, encoders, and sensor interfaces.
• Define industrial networking requirements including EtherCAT, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, Modbus, CAN/CAN-FD, IO-Link.

Education

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

Advanced degree (Master’s or Doctorate) may substitute for up to two years of experience

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Director of Product Management to own the definition, roadmap, and lifecycle of processors for Industrial and Edge AI markets.

Lead cross-functional teams to translate workloads into differentiated SoCs, software plans, and hardware platforms for production. The role covers compute across CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP, real-time control, and connectivity, with responsibilities spanning MRD/PRD creation, architecture decisions, and customer engagement.