Director, Product Management

Company: Qualcomm
Location: San Diego
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:Operations Group, Operations Group > Product ManagementGeneral Summary:Snapdragon Ride aims to address the complexity of autonomous driving and ADAS by leveraging its high-performance, power-efficient hardware, industry-leading artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and pioneering autonomous driving stack to deliver a comprehensive, cost and energy efficient systems solution. Enabling safe, comfortable, and affordable autonomous driving includes solving some of the most challenging technological problems - from centimeter-level localization to multimodal sensor perception, sensor fusion, behavior prediction, maneuver planning, and trajectory planning and control, each one of these functions introduces its own unique challenges to solve.We are looking for talented engineers and product managers to join our autonomous driving team.Job responsibilities include the following:

• Driving end-to-end design of perception systems - computer vision, lidar, radar.
• Taking from concept production - drive all aspects of product including data collection, ML ops, Data ops, meeting KPIs, HIL, SIL and customer management.
• Drive alignment with engineering teams on system design, use case analysis, architectural analysis.
• Define all aspects of system including safety, SOTIF, AoUs and work with safety teams to get the deliverables in place.
• Responsible for scouting the industry for advanced CV and sensing products and regularly publish competitive reports.
• Work with sensor vendors and internal teams to define and drive next gen imaging needs to establish competitive position for Qualcomm.
• Benchmark sensor vendors for next generation products / roadmaps and advanced sensing solutions.
• Working with partners (cloud data & processing, simulation, compute) for autonomous driving & computer vision stack tools.
• Working with customers and internal engineering teams on customer RFI, RFQs, system level use case modelling and analysis.
• Work with business managers & marketing teams for opportunity accusation and demand creation.
• Maintain our competitive positioning across tiers from features, power, performance, benchmarking, and cost, and use those to ensure that we continue to have the best in class overall automotive product roadmap.
• Candidate would be working with other automotive teams - SoC, hardware platforms, software tools and frameworks.Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in end-to-end design of perception systems - computer vision, lidar, radar.
  • Proven track record of delivering production projects from L1 to L3 and above on perception systems.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product architecture, product management with experience in taking customer requirements to a SOC product.
  • 5+ years of experience in automotive software development, use case analysis, system level modelling.
  • 5+ years of experience in automotive perception stacks, driving stacks and driving IP & SOC architecture to enable efficient HW-SW co-design.
  • 5+ years Product Management or related work experience, completing full cycle of products from concept to commercialization.
  • Experience in customer engagements and product marketing in Automotive.
  • Experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:$196,000.00 - $294,000.00The 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 .
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