Qualcomm
Staff, Product Data Manager (PDM) AI Platforms & Systems Solutions
$182K–$273K
San Diego, California · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years required; advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years. 10+ years preferred. Additional preferred experience: 3+ years in a large, matrixed organization; 2+ years with operating budgets/project financials; 2+ years negotiating third-party agreements or partnerships.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field.
About the job
Owns product strategy, definition, and lifecycle for Windows-focused on-device and hybrid AI platform products, runtimes, and interoperability specifications.
What you'll do
- Define product scope, requirements, roadmaps, KPIs, and business cases for AI/ML enablement, agentic frameworks, orchestration runtimes, and related protocols.
- Drive technical specification and standards development, ratification, and ecosystem adoption with partners and standards bodies.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery and product launches, ensuring engineering meets agreed KPIs and conformance criteria.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience; relevant advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years).
- Hands-on experience delivering AI products or services using local accelerators, with understanding of edge AI APIs/DDIs, SDKs, and app-to-silicon workload flow.
- Working knowledge of edge AI models and their performance, power, latency, memory, and security trade-offs.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of Product Management or related technical work experience; 3+ years in a large, matrixed organization; 2+ years with operating budgets/project financials; 2+ years negotiating third-party agreements or partnerships.
- Advanced degree (MS or MBA); experience with Windows AI platforms, technical standards, and AI middleware/frameworks.
Pay
$181,800.00 - $272,600.00 (base salary)
Tools
Windows, CPU, GPU, NPU, DirectX, WinML, OpenCL, GGML
AI focus
Product management for on-device and hybrid AI, including model enablement and inference optimization, agentic systems, orchestration across compute tiers, and open protocols and standards.
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