Senior Demand Planning Analyst — AI & GPU Capacity

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

Job summary

Qualcomm Incorporated in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end forecast methodology for AI, compute, and storage capacity. You will translate roadmaps into multi-year demand plans, size capital purchases, and present capacity positions to engineering and finance leadership.

You will lead a cross‑functional team of analysts, drive data‑driven budgeting, and advance AI‑enabled forecasting with automation. This role is office-based in San Diego.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
• OR 7+ years of IT-relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.
• 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.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including large-scale quantitative modeling.
• Demonstrated experience building business intelligence dashboards and executive reporting in Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience translating technical roadmaps 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.
• Demonstrated experience building and delivering significant PowerPoint presentations to executive management.

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.
• Translate product roadmaps and tapeout schedules into demand deltas and maintain strict version traceability.
• Attribute year‑over‑year demand growth to underlying drivers with quantitative decomposition.
• Consolidate demand planning for newly acquired businesses and validate inputs against utilization evidence.
• Own the forecasting methodology and planning toolset end to end; mentor analysts.

Skills

Demand forecasting

capacity planning

forecasting methodology ownership

capital and operating budget planning

driver decomposition

AI and GPU capacity planning

AI-assisted analysis

Tableau

executive presentation

data center capacity planning

utilization analytics

constrained resource allocation

stakeholder management

global cross-functional collaboration

analyst mentorship

Education

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

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Qualcomm Incorporated in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Staff Demand Analyst to own end-to-end forecast methodology for AI, compute, and storage capacity. You will translate roadmaps into multi-year demand plans, size capital purchases, and present capacity positions to engineering and finance leadership.

You will lead a cross‑functional team of analysts, drive data‑driven budgeting, and advance AI‑enabled forecasting with automation. This role is office-based in San Diego.