Senior Product Manager, Networking CPU Platforms

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a Product Manager to own product definition and execution for Ethernet products across PHY, multi-PHY, NIC, or switching.

You will drive requirements across hardware, firmware, software, and architecture, coordinating with engineering to deliver cohesive silicon-to-system solutions. The role involves roadmap planning, translating market needs into PRDs, and engaging with OEMs, enterprises, and service providers to gather feedback and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 4+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years of work experience (Master's = 1 year, Doctorate = 2 years).

Responsibilities

• Drive product requirements across hardware, firmware, system architecture, and software enablement.
• Contribute to roadmap planning — feature definition, performance tiering, SKU options, and lifecycle milestones.
• Translate market and customer requirements into product requirement documents and platform software expectations.
• Engage with OEM, enterprise, and service-provider customers to gather requirements and validate direction.
• Analyze architecture-level trade-offs across performance, power, cost, programmability, and time-to-market.
• Develop business case inputs including market sizing, competitive benchmarking, pricing analysis, and revenue modeling.
• Support go-to-market execution with sales, marketing, and business development, including content and launches.
• Drive cross-functional execution across silicon design, platform software, validation, manufacturing, and supply chain.

Education

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

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

Own product definition and execution for assigned Ethernet products across PHY, multi-PHY, NIC, or switching, contributing to the broader portfolio roadmap and strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive product requirements across hardware, firmware, system architecture, and software enablement, coordinating with engineering owners to ensure cohesive silicon-to-system solutions.
• Contribute to roadmap planning — feature definition, performance tiering, SKU options, and lifecycle milestones — under the direction of portfolio leadership.
• Translate market and customer requirements into product requirement documents, platform software expectations, and inputs to reference architectures.
• Serve as a voice of the customer, engaging with OEM, enterprise, and service-provider customers and partners to gather requirements, validate direction, and support design-in activity.
• Analyze architecture-level trade-offs across performance, power, cost, programmability, and time-to-market, and present recommendations to architecture and product leadership.
• Develop business case inputs including market sizing, competitive benchmarking, pricing analysis, cost impacts, and revenue modeling for assigned products.
• Support go-to-market execution with sales, marketing, and business development, including positioning content, launch readiness, customer sampling, and field enablement materials.
• Drive cross-functional execution across silicon design, platform software, validation, manufacturing, supply chain, and ecosystem partners, adapting to shifting priorities while meeting committed schedules.
• Track product milestones, dependencies, and risks, escalating issues and proposing resolutions in a timely manner.
• Represent assigned products in internal product reviews, customer roadmap discussions, and ecosystem engagements.
• Share domain knowledge and provide constructive feedback to junior product managers and cross-functional partners.

This is an office based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 4+ years of Product 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
• 2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• 2+ years of negotiating 3rd party business agreements.
• 2+ years of working in a large matrixed organization.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$165,200.00 - $247,800.00

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.