Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management
General Summary:
Develops, defines, and executes plans of record, including: schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks. Monitors and drives the program from initiation through delivery, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders across functions on technical matters, as needed. Monitors budget/spending, on-time delivery, and achievement of program milestones. Represents the program and drives alignment across stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor''s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong background in software program management in the areas of Linux Kernel and Android
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and workflows
- Expertise in Android release trains, dependency management, and milestone governance.
- Drives disciplined practices around Feature Review Boards/ Change Control Board, checkpoints, and metrics.
- Ability to balance customer commitments, roadmap priorities, and engineering capacity.
- Bachelor''s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Good understanding of system architecture and design principles
- Strong understanding of Android OS architecture (AOSP, HAL, framework, system services)
- Experience managing Android BSPs, mainlining, CTS/VTS/GTS, and OEM/custom Android variants.
- Familiarity with Google certification processes and release requirements.
- Previous software engineering experience e.g. Audio, Video, Display, Camera, Graphics in the Linux or Android space
- Strong working knowledge of software development process in the SoC / embedded industry
- Experience in program managing end-to-end product integration
- Ability to work with multi-site environment to drive large scale programs
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with key stakeholders and program sponsors to develop program goals, set the prioritization of deliverables, discuss involvement of business processes (e.g., program change management, communication) and drives decisions necessary for on time delivery.
- Manages and takes responsibility for multiple medium sized programs/technology with moderate complexity by applying up-to-date program management knowledge to meet deadlines.
- Develops and manages the execution of the program Plan of Record (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope) for multiple medium sized programs which include schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholders identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization.
- Establishes key program metrics and manages team to take action outside their comfort zone to ensure program success when metrics deviate from Plan of Record.
- Identifies and secures resources to ensure alignment of team with program/technology demand for multiple medium sized programs with moderate complexity.
- Drives teams to identify program issues/risks, and create a risk mitigation plan for multiple medium sized or a single complex program(s). Maintains and updates the risk tracker.
- Promotes program vision and objectives within the team, ensures program objectives are met or exceeded, presents program vision to management, and gains buy-in from stakeholders.
- Promotes adoption of processes by applying best practices and identifying and executing process improvement initiatives across the Program Management team.
Level of Responsibility:
- Working independently with little supervision.
- Making decisions that are significant in impact; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.
- Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to