Senior AI & HPC Capacity Forecasting Lead

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end forecast methodology for multi-year AI, compute, and storage planning. You will translate silicon roadmaps into demand plans, size capital purchases, and present capacity positions to engineering and finance leadership.

The role involves cross-functional collaboration with executives and a team of analysts to ensure scalable planning and documentation across global data centers and business units. Office-based in San Diego, CA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years IT-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree or 9+ years without a degree.

Responsibilities

• Own long-range demand forecasting and capacity planning for AI systems, compute, storage, GPU, across hardware/software engineering on multi-year horizon.
• Own annual budget submission and quarterly rolling forecast with Budget Operations and Finance.
• Translate roadmaps into demand deltas and maintain version traceability between roadmaps and forecasts.
• Attribute year-over-year demand growth to underlying drivers using quantitative decomposition.
• Consolidate demand planning for acquisitions and normalize inputs across geographies.
• Lead end-to-end forecasting methodology, improve models, and mentor analysts.

Skills

Demand forecasting

Capacity planning

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

Executive reporting

SQL

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Master's or Doctorate substituted for up to two years experience

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

LSF

Job description

Qualcomm is seeking a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end forecast methodology for multi-year AI, compute, and storage planning. You will translate silicon roadmaps into demand plans, size capital purchases, and present capacity positions to engineering and finance leadership.

The role involves cross-functional collaboration with executives and a team of analysts to ensure scalable planning and documentation across global data centers and business units. Office-based in San Diego, CA.