Staff Product Manager - Data Center High-Speed Connectivity & AI Infrastructure

Qualcomm; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a seasoned Product Manager for its Data Center Business Unit in Santa Clara, CA. You will define strategies, roadmaps, and customer engagements for high-speed connectivity technologies powering AI-scale systems.

Responsibilities include collaborating with architecture, engineering, ecosystem partners, and hyperscale customers to shape scalable solutions and drive market success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent and 5+ years in product management or related role.
• Experience defining roadmaps and engaging customers for technology products.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy, roadmap definition, customer engagement for high-speed connectivity technologies enabling AI scale in hyperscale environments.
• Collaborate across architecture, engineering, ecosystem partners, and hyperscale customers to shape solutions spanning scale-up fabrics, high-speed I/O, optical networking, and rack-scale infrastructure.
• Define product strategy and multi-generation roadmaps for high-speed connectivity solutions supporting AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop market requirements, use cases, competitive positioning, and business cases for next-generation connectivity technologies.
• Identify industry trends and customer requirements across AI networking, chiplet ecosystems, and rack-scale infrastructure.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Analytical skills

Strategic planning

Education

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

Job description

General Summary

Join Qualcomm's Data Center Business Unit and help define the next generation of high-performance connectivity solutions powering hyperscale AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy, roadmap definition, customer engagement, and execution for high-speed connectivity technologies that enable AI scale-up and scale-out systems.
• Collaborate across architecture, engineering, ecosystem partners, and hyperscale customers to shape solutions spanning scale-up fabrics, high-speed I/O, optical networking, and rack-scale infrastructure.
• Define product strategy and multi-generation roadmaps for high-speed connectivity solutions supporting AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop market requirements, customer use cases, competitive positioning, and business cases for next-generation connectivity technologies.
• Identify emerging industry trends and customer requirements across AI networking, scale-up fabrics, scale-out architectures, chiplet ecosystems, and rack-scale infrastructure.
• Drive platform and ecosystem strategies that enable broad adoption across custom silicon and AI infrastructure deployments.
• Engage directly with customers, ecosystem partners, and industry consortiums to understand future connectivity requirements.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Support technical workshops, architecture reviews, customer briefings, and executive engagements.
• Develop compelling product value propositions and positioning for strategic customer opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with architecture and engineering teams to define system-level connectivity requirements and product capabilities.
• Drive alignment across silicon, software, systems, packaging, and infrastructure organizations.
• Provide product leadership for emerging interconnect technologies such as die-to-die connectivity, chiplet ecosystems, scale-up fabrics, high-speed I/O, and optical networking solutions.
• Balance performance, scalability, power efficiency, cost, ecosystem adoption, and business objectives when defining product direction.
• Develop business cases, investment recommendations, pricing strategies, and customer engagement plans.
• Support product planning from concept through market deployment and adoption.
• Drive cross-functional execution across architecture, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing.
• Track product success using measurable business, customer, and execution metrics.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor, networking, connectivity, or AI infrastructure markets.
• Strong understanding of high-speed connectivity technologies including PCIe, Ethernet, optical interconnects, die-to-die communication, and chiplet ecosystems.
• Experience with AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, HPC systems, or cloud architectures.
• Understanding of scale-up and scale-out system architectures used in AI and machine learning deployments.
• Familiarity with advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, and high-bandwidth interconnect solutions.
• Experience driving products from concept through deployment.
• Strong financial, analytical, and market evaluation capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
• Experience working directly with hyperscale customers, strategic partners, or industry standards organizations.

Location

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

EEO Statement

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.