NPI Program Manager (Staff)

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 202,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an NPI Program Manager to drive post-tape-out execution, coordinating with PDTE, BU PM, supply chain, fab, OSAT, test houses, and customers to ensure timely qualification, ramp, and production.

The role requires full-time onsite work in Santa Clara with a BS in engineering and 10+ years in semiconductor program management, plus strong leadership, analytics, and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Science or related field.
• 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
• Experience with ASIC, SoC, advanced node and advanced semiconductor packaging.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, assembly, test.

Responsibilities

• Manage execution from post Silicon tape-out through RTP and production ramp.
• Own program schedules, milestone tracking, deliverables, risk management, and periodic reporting.
• Ensure phase-gate reviews, customer samples delivery, qualification builds, and RTP.
• Manage cross-functional team, communication and escalation management.
• Work with engineering and supply chain team to manage schedule, milestones and planning for fab, OSAT and test house.
• Use data analytics for decision making, post Si bring up and continuous yield improvement.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Data analytics

Communication

Education

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

Master’s or Doctorate may substitute for up to two years of work experience

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

General Summary:

NPI Program Manager is responsible for driving execution post Silicon tape-out, managing silicon fab and OSAT deliveries, customer sample delivery, and qualification planning. This role serves as an interface between PDTE team, Business Unit PM, supply chain, fab, OSAT, test house and customers to ensure successful timely product development, qualification, ramp, and production.

This role requires full-time onsite work in our Santa Clara, CA office (5 days per week).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage execution from post Silicon tape-out through RTP and production ramp.
• Own program schedules, milestone tracking, deliverables, risk management, and periodic reporting.
• Ensure phase-gate reviews, customer samples delivery, qualification builds, and RTP
• Manage cross-functional team, communication and escalation management.

Operations

• Work with engineering and supply chain team to manage schedule, milestones and planning for fab, OSAT and test house, customer/engineering sample forecasting, material readiness, and engineering/qualification/production scheduling.

Technical

• Support silicon bring-up and yield improvement initiatives.
• Use data analytics for decision making, post Si bring up (working with DFT) and continuous yield improvement.

Customer

• Primary interface for customers. Manage customer escalations and ensure resolution of technical and operational issues.
• Build strong collaborative relationships across internal and customer teams.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Science or related field.
• 10+ years of semiconductor industry experience.
• Experience with ASIC, SoC, advanced node and advanced semiconductor packaging.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, assembly, test.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop program goals, set the prioritization of deliverables, discuss involvement of business processes (e.g., program change management, communication) and drives decisions necessary for on time delivery.
• Manages and takes responsibility for multiple medium sized programs/technology with moderate complexity by applying up-to-date program management knowledge to meet deadlines.
• Develops and manages the execution of the program Plan of Record (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope) for multiple medium sized programs which include schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholders identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization.
• Establishes key program metrics and manages team to take action outside their comfort zone to ensure program success when metrics deviate from Plan of Record.
• Identifies and secures resources to ensure alignment of team with program/technology demand for multiple medium sized programs with moderate complexity.
• Drives teams to identify program issues/risks, and create a risk mitigation plan for multiple medium sized or a single complex program(s). Maintains and updates the risk tracker.
• Promotes program vision and objectives within the team, ensures program objectives are met or exceeded, presents program vision to management, and gains buy-in from stakeholders.
• Promotes adoption of processes by applying best practices and identifying and executing process improvement initiatives across the Program Management team.

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.

Responsibilities Not Included

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

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

• $202,000.00 - $303,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.