Senior Demand & Capacity Planner for AI/GPU Systems

Nutanix; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end demand forecasting and capacity planning for AI systems, compute, storage, and GPU across hardware and software engineering. You will translate roadmaps into multi-year demand plans and justify capital purchases at the executive level.

You will lead a small team of analysts, improve forecasting models, and apply AI to automate analyses while coordinating with engineering, finance, and procurement to ensure alignment

Qualifications

• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including large-scale quantitative modeling.
• Experience building business intelligence dashboards and executive reporting in Tableau, Power BI, or an equivalent platform.
• Experience translating technical roadmaps or product schedules into resource, capacity, or supply plans.
• Experience preparing budget or capital planning inputs and presenting them to finance partners and senior leadership.
• Experience consolidating data from multiple stakeholders and sources into a single planning position, and maintaining version control over successive planning cycles.

Responsibilities

• Own long-range demand forecasting and capacity planning for AI systems, compute, storage, GPU, and emulation across hardware and software engineering on a rolling multi-year horizon.
• Own the annual budget submission and the quarterly rolling forecast cycle with Budget Operations and Finance, including capital and operating expense framing, pricing analysis, and the written demand narrative.
• Translate product roadmaps and tapeout schedules into demand deltas and maintain strict version traceability between each roadmap release and the forecast cycle it supports.
• Attribute year-over-year demand growth to its underlying drivers using quantitative decomposition.
• Consolidate demand planning for newly acquired businesses operating outside the standard process and normalize inputs.

Skills

Demand forecasting

Capacity planning

Forecasting methodology ownership

Capital and operating budget planning

Driver decomposition and attribution

AI and GPU capacity planning

Tableau

Power BI

Data center capacity planning

Utilization analytics

Stakeholder management

Global cross-functional collaboration

Analyst mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, CS, Data Analytics, OR related field

Master's degree in a related field (with 5+ years experience)

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end demand forecasting and capacity planning for AI systems, compute, storage, and GPU across hardware and software engineering. You will translate roadmaps into multi-year demand plans and justify capital purchases at the executive level.

You will lead a small team of analysts, improve forecasting models, and apply AI to automate analyses while coordinating with engineering, finance, and procurement to ensure alignment