General Summary:
As a market leader in wireless networking solutions Qualcomm has been instrumental in enabling Wi-Fi to become the primary means of providing network access to devices in homes, small businesses, large enterprises, and public venues such as airports and hotels. As new applications and devices take advantage of Wi-Fi’s seamless network access capabilities the demands for continuous efficiency and performance improvements have never been greater and the diversity of the markets serviced by Wi-Fi have never been broader. Next generation Wi-Fi solutions will drive levels of network efficiency and performance to unprecedented levels enabling them to service applications that demand low latency and high bandwidth all while accommodating explosive IoT density growth and enabling expansion into the smart home/business services business. This recasting of wireless networking solutions presents the opportunity to truly drive the transformation of how Wi-Fi networks are designed, provisioned, and used. As a thought leader this is where you come in. As a Software Product Manager for Qualcomm’s Wireless Infrastructure Networking (WIN) business you will help define and drive a comprehensive software platform strategy that is efficiently organized around the different features, performance and ecosystems needs of our diverse end markets.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.In this role you will work closely with geographically dispersed engineering, marketing, and sales teams to define the WIN software platform strategy. Additional responsibilities include:
• Working with SoC product managers to specify software platform market requirements.
• Driving an extensive ecosystem of third-party software developers leveraging the Qualcomm platform.
• Identification of opportunities for software reuse, and architecture innovation that result in software roadmap optimizations that drive an efficient engineering execution strategy and a clear go to market strategy.
• Identifying and managing synergies between tactical customer software features and then distilling, prioritizing, and communicating the software product features to broad sets of geographically dispersed engineering stakeholders and arriving at a negotiated outcome for feature delivery that best serves the WIN business.
• Help develop key marketing messages around the WIN software platform.
• Maintaining subject matter expertise and internally/externally evangelizing software ecosystems and technical trends that will have a material impact on the WIN business
• Delivering presentations at technical conferences and to customers.
• Identifying partnership opportunities and driving partnership relationships.
This is a business professional product management role for a technically strong, experienced platform software product manager with a proven track record of delivering 802.11/802.3 networking products into enterprise, carrier, and retail markets. A minimum of 2 years of product management experience with complex networking platforms and 5 years of software architecture and development experience is mandatory. Product Management/Technical capabilities include:
• Strong software ecosystem development experience.
• Exceptional communication skills with an ability to quickly establish credibility and positive influence across a diverse array of technical teams in multiple geographies.
• Experience working with TCP/UDP/IP/802.3/802.11x protocols and working with drivers from various wireless vendors
• Experience working with Linux networking data path tools and processor offload architectures including OVS, DPDK, etc.
• Experience working with networking data path services including PON, packet filtering, QoS, packet classification, DPI, firewall, wireless IDS/IPS, traffic and application visibility, network instrumentation and telemetry.
• Experience with managing/designing software that can support proprietary and open-source initiatives efficiently.
• Experience with managing/designing software applications that can run across multiple platforms.
• Experience with managing/designing software for reuse.
• Experience with software modularization/test methodologies.
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (MS or MBA preferred
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