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Drives product conception, roadmap definition, ecosystem engagement, and execution through product lifecycle, enabling industry-leading AI experiences on Qualcomm platforms.\nThe ideal candidate is passionate about advancing AI software technologies and developer ecosystems, translating market requirements into differentiated software products and platform capabilities. This role requires deep expertisein\nAI frameworks, inference runtimes, Windows AI software architecture, and emerging Agentic AI workflows.\nThe candidate will work closely with engineering, ecosystem partners, OEMs, ISVs, Microsoft, and strategic customers to define and deliver next-generation AI software capabilities for AI PCs and edge AI platforms.\nPreferred Qualifications\nTechnical Expertise\nStrong understanding of AI inference software stacks, model deployment workflows, and optimization across CPU, GPU, and NPU accelerators.\n\nDeep understanding of ONNX Runtime, Windows ML, Windows AI platform architecture, and AI PC ecosystem requirements.\n\nExperience with PyTorch, ONNX, RoCm, Hugging Face, OpenVINO, TensorRT, CoreML, or comparable AI software frameworks.\n\nStrong knowledge of Generative AI, LLMs, multimodal AI, Agentic AI architectures, RAG systems, tool calling frameworks, and AI orchestration solutions.\n\nUnderstanding ofcompiler and runtime technologies including MLIR, graph optimization, kernel fusion, quantization, model conversion, and hardware-aware optimization.\n\nExperience analyzing tradeoffs among performance, accuracy, latency, memory footprint, power efficiency, and developer experience.\n\nFamiliarity with Windows application development ecosystem and AI SDK integration models.\n\nKnowledge of AI model onboarding and optimization workflows across edge and client platforms.\n\nProduct Leadership\n8+ years of Product Management, Engineering, Technical Marketing, Solutions Architecture, or related experience.\n\n5+ years leading AI/ML software products or platform technologies.\n\nProven ability to define software roadmaps and influence cross-functional execution across engineering, business, and ecosystem teams.\n\nExperience driving partnerships with operating system vendors, framework developers, cloud providers, OEMs, and ISVs.\n\nTrack recordtranslating customer and ecosystem requirements into product investments and measurable business outcomes.\n\nBusiness & Communication\nStrong executive communication and presentation skills.\n\nExperience engaging customers, strategic partners, and senior leadership.\n\nAbility to lead through influence across geographically distributed organizations.\n\nDemonstrated success driving complex initiatives from concept through commercial deployment.\n\nPrincipal Duties and Responsibilities\nProduct Strategy & Roadmap\nDefine and own the AI software product roadmap for AI PCs and edge AI platforms, spanning inference runtimes, frameworks, developer tools, and ecosystem integrations.\n\nDevelop long-term strategy for ONNX Runtime, Windows AI software enablement, and heterogeneous acceleration technologies.\n\nIdentifyemerging market opportunities and technology trends in GenAI, Agentic AI, multimodal AI, and AI-powered productivity experiences.\n\nEstablish product requirements and success metrics aligned with customer needs and business goals.\n\nEcosystem & Platform Leadership\nDrive Qualcomm's engagement with Microsoft, ecosystem partners, framework communities, ISVs, and strategic customers.\n\nLead platform differentiation initiatives covering ONNX Runtime optimization, Windows AI integration, and AI application enablement.\n\nInfluence framework roadmaps to maximize performance and usability on Qualcomm AI PC platforms.\n\nCollaborate with ecosystem partners to accelerate adoptionof Qualcomm AI technologies.\n\nTechnology & Customer Engagement\nWork closely with engineering teams to define software architecture priorities and investment areas.\n\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies and define platform requirements for future hardware and software generations.\n\nTranslate customer feedback and market insights into differentiated roadmap strategies.\n\nDefine benchmark methodologies, workloads, and evaluation frameworks for AI software performance and usability.\n\nCross-Functional Execution\nDrive alignment across Product Management, Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, and Program Management organizations.\n\nEnsure successful delivery of roadmap commitments and platform capabilities.\n\nEstablish KPIs and metrics to measure ecosystem adoption, developer engagement, customer success, and product impact.\n\nLead executive reviews and provide regular updates on strategy, execution progress, and market trends.\n\nIndustry Leadership\nRepresent Qualcomm in industry forums(such as UXL, MLPerf), partner engagements, conferences, and customer briefings.\n\nMaintain leadership awareness of competitive AI software frameworks, runtimes, developer tools, and ecosystem developments.\n\nDrive innovation that strengthens Qualcomm's position in AI PCs, edge AI, and future intelligent computing platforms.\n\n Minimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.8+ years of Product Management or related work experience.\n*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.\nQualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nEEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nPay rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :\n$198,200.00 - $297,400.00The 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. 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