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You will work closely with engineering, OEMs, independent software vendors, Linux distribution partners, open-source communities, enterprise customers, and strategic partners to deliver industry-leading Linux experiences optimized for Snapdragon platforms.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong technical knowledge of Linux ecosystems with customer-focused product management skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. The role requires translating market and customer needs into platform requirements, upstream plans, partner priorities, and executable product roadmaps.\nPrincipal Duties and Responsibilities\nProduct Strategy & Roadmap Development\nDefine Linuxproduct roadmaps for Snapdragon AI PCs, workstations, edge AI systems, enterprise devices, and developer platforms.\n\nGather customer, ecosystem, and market requirements to identify product investments, platform gaps, and differentiation opportunities.\n\nCreate product requirements documents,use cases, customer scenarios, and business justifications for Linux platform initiatives.\n\nDrive prioritization decisions that balance customer value, upstream readiness, engineering feasibility, schedule, cost, and business objectives.\n\nAlign Linux platform requirements across hardware, firmware, kernel, operating system, middleware, AI software, developer tools, and enterprise services.\n\nLinuxPlatform Enablement& Upstreaming\nDefine and drive the Linux upstreaming strategy for kernel, device drivers, firmware interfaces, graphics, multimedia, connectivity, security, power management, virtualization, and AI acceleration components.\n\nPartner with engineering teams to establish upstream-first plans that improve long-term maintainability, reduce downstream fragmentation, and accelerate ecosystem adoption of Snapdragon platforms.\n\nDrive alignment between upstream community requirements, commercial product schedules, customer commitments, and Snapdragon platform roadmaps.\n\nTrack upstream readiness, dependencies, gaps, risks, and acceptance criteria across Linux subsystems and product generations.\n\nCollaborate with maintainers, open-source communities, Linux Foundation initiatives, and ecosystem partners to advance Qualcomm technologies in broadly adopted open-source projects.\n\nLinux Distribution Strategy & Enablement\nDefine therequirements to enable industry-leading Linux distributions on Snapdragon platforms, including Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and other strategic enterprise or community distributions.\n\nLead technical and product engagements with distribution vendors and communities to align platform support, certification, release schedules, installation experiences, update mechanisms, security maintenance, and lifecycle expectations.\n\nDrive a consistent, production-ready Linux experience spanning installation, boot, kernel, drivers, graphics, multimedia, networking, AI acceleration, developer tooling, manageability, observability, security, and supportability.\n\nDevelop joint enablement plans with OEMs, distribution partners,ISVs, and enterprise customers.\n\nAI Developer & Enterprise PlatformEnablement\nDrive Linux enablement initiatives for AI developers across desktops, workstations, AI PCs, and edge computing platforms.\n\nDefine requirements for AI frameworks and runtimes such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX Runtime, llama.cpp, and containerized AI workflows.\n\nPartner with engineering to optimize local AI inferencing and application development across CPU, GPU, NPU, and heterogeneous compute resources.\n\nDefine enterprise-grade requirements for manageability, observability, telemetry, security, remote diagnostics, virtualization, containers, orchestration, software updates, and fleet operations.\n\nEcosystem, Customer & Market Engagement\nCollaborate with Linux distribution partners, OEMs, ISVs, cloud providers, system integrators, open-source communities, and enterprise customers.\n\nTranslate customer and partner feedback into actionable platform requirements, upstream priorities, and roadmap recommendations.\n\nSupport customer design wins and strategic engagements through clear product positioning, solution definition, and execution planning.\n\nRepresent Qualcomm in customer briefings, partner discussions, industry events, developer conferences, and open-source forums.\n\nMonitor developments across Linux, Arm computing, AI platforms, cloud-edge infrastructure, enterprise deployment, and competing platform ecosystems.\n\nCross-Functional ProductCollaboration\nPartner closely with software engineering, hardware engineering, architecture, program management, business development, marketing, sales, quality, security, and customer engineering teams.\n\nDrive cross-functional alignment on product vision, scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success metrics.\n\nCommunicate roadmap priorities, market insights, customer requirements, and execution status to technical and executive stakeholders.\n\nInfluence complex decisions without direct authority and resolve competing requirements using customer impact, data, and business priorities.\n\nQualifications\nExperience defining software products, platform roadmaps, technical requirements, and cross-functional execution plans.\n\nExperience working with Linux operating systems, open-source software ecosystems, and upstream development models.\n\nExperience driving Linux upstreaming or working with upstream kernel, driver, firmware, graphics, multimedia, networking, security, or platform software communities.\n\nExperience enabling one or more major Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, or an equivalent enterprise or community distribution.\n\nWorking knowledge of Linux kernel architecture, device drivers, board support packages, distribution integration, package and release processes, and upstream contribution workflows.\n\nExperience collaborating with software engineering teams, open-source communities, distribution partners, OEMs, ISVs, or customer-facing organizations.\n\nStrong analytical, written, verbal, and executive communication skills, with demonstrated ability to lead through influence.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.\n\nExperience contributing to or leading Linux upstreaming initiatives and working with subsystem maintainers or open-source foundations.\n\nExperience with enterprise Linux certification, distribution release planning, long-term support models, security response, and commercial support requirements.\n\nKnowledge of Linux graphics and compute stacks, AI/ML frameworks, containers, Kubernetes, virtualization, Arm-based platforms, and heterogeneous compute architectures.\n\nExperience commercializing Linux platforms across AI PCs, workstations, edge appliances, enterprise devices, robotics, or embedded systems.\n\nExperience defining enterprise-grade platform capabilities including manageability, observability, telemetry, security, lifecycle management, and fleet deployment.\n\nDemonstrated success managing complex products across globally distributed engineering and business teams.\n\nRole Impact\nThis role will help shape Qualcomm's Linux platform direction across AI PCs, enterprise computing, edge AI infrastructure, and next-generation Snapdragon platforms. The Staff Product Manager will connect upstream technology strategy, distribution enablement, customer requirements, and cross-functional execution to deliver scalable, maintainable, and commercially compelling Linux solutions.\n Minimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.5+ 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$181,800.00 - $272,600.00The 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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