Staff/Director – Low Power AI HW Product Management Full Time NEW

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary

We’re looking for a technology product manager to help drive low-power AI and ambient compute forward. They will help manage the Low Power AI subsystem and microNPU. Qualcomm’s Low Power AI subsystem / Sensing Hub enables ambient AI & compute experiences.

The Low Power AI Subsystem Is a Platform

• It has its own processor(s) running an RTOS
• It has a microNPU for always-on / low latency AI
• It takes inputs, such as physical sensors, microphones, camera, and connectivity

Our partners, both internal teams, ISVs, and OEMs build use cases like always-on keyword detection, personal knowledge graph, and always-sensing camera.

Role

Your role will be to drive a comprehensive product strategy, from conception and definition through end of life for Low Power AI subsystem, and microNPU. You will:

• Formulate and execute long-term roadmaps
• Promote new technologies and industry-leading trends
• Partner across the organization to launch new experiences
• Engage with ISVs to help them launch on our platform

Desired Skills

• Strong background in low power embedded platforms, like MCUs
• In-depth knowledge of DSPs and NPUs, across both hardware and software
• Work well across matrixed organizations, across many geographies / time zones

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management or related work experience
• 2+ years experience with MCUs or RTOS-based SoCs
• 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

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Conducts complex analyses to assess marketability of products based on market, customer, technology, and other ecosystem demands.
• Creates a business case for the development of a new product or product features in an established product area (i.e., time to market, cost, market share).
• Markets new and complex products and technologies through technical marketing opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and drives product launch efforts.
• Prepares and delivers highly complex technical presentations for new and existing products that explain and demonstrate products managed to customers.
• Contributes to the creation of a differentiated product roadmap in an established product area, promotes it within team, and ensures all team members understand the product roadmap.
• Directs the development of complex products and services with minimal supervision and communicates with individuals across functional teams.
• Completes product development and definition activities for a moderately complex, owned product, including determination of cost and impact, and interacts with sales team to generate forecasts.
• Maintains expertise by staying up to date on competitors, technological advances, and the product ecosystem and takes the lead on development and design innovation of products in an established area to articulate differentiation of products to customers and identify trends.
• Communicates regularly within own team and cross-functional team(s) to ensure team-level understanding of product plans for a product line.
• Ensures successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring that agreed upon KPIs and specifications are met for product(s), upon delivery by engineering team.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop product goals (e.g., performance, cost, timeline, customer schedules), discuss product feasibility, and facilitate cross-functional decision making for products they own.

Minimum Qualifications

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

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