Job Snapshot
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Employee Type:
Full-Time -
Location:
San Diego, CA -
Job Type:
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Experience:
Not Specified -
Date Posted:
4/13/2025
Job Description
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management
General Summary:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) is in search of a Staff Product Manager with experience in developing Linux-based Operating Systems or large-scale Open-Source projects. As part of the Technology Planning and Edge Solutions (TPE) business unit, you will collaborate with other QTI business units to gather product and market requirements, define a strategic Linux software platform, drive execution, and track metrics of success. In this capacity, you will play a crucial role in advancing Qualcomm’s growth in adjacent markets including Industrial IoT, Cloud, Automotive, and Infrastructure through open-source leadership.
Principal duties and responsibilities of this role include:
- Utilize comprehensive knowledge of open source to develop a foundational Linux software platform. Key areas of expertise include understanding open-source upstream development, Linux distributions, community outreach, and open-source licensing.
- Develop software product and functional requirements for Qualcomm Linux by incorporating feedback from various internal and external stakeholders.
- Engage in technical discussions with engineering peers to make informed trade-off decisions and determine the optimal course of action that promotes developer adoption of Qualcomm platforms.
- Conduct thorough analyses of market demands within the Linux ecosystem to identify gaps and offer recommendations for addressing these gaps in product roadmaps.
- Coordinate with other Product Management teams within TPE and across other business units to maximize leverage and return on investment from software development.
- Confirm that software and evaluation kit definition is adequately supported by the open-source community.
- Proficiency working with and providing critical feedback to development teams through hands on use of a Linux/Windows/MacOS host attached to ARM64-based evaluation kits, using tools and SDKs provided to developers by QTI.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in engineering or computer science or MBA
- Product Management experience managing complete cycle of products from concept to launch, defining product requirements document, change requests and prioritization of feature requests.
- Understanding of embedded software engineering principles.
- Understanding of multimedia (camera, video, computer vision, audio, display, graphics) technology and frameworks based on Linux.
- Customer engagement experience with understanding of entire product cycle from definition to commercialization to maintenance.
- Understanding of toolchains, package policies, boot flow, open-source frameworks, kernel and upstreaming procedures, containers, orchestration and virtualization.
- Direct experience with OEMs, OS vendors, ISVs, open-source community and product sustenance.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$179,200.00 - $268,800.00The 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.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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