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Senior Product Manager - AI Developer Advocate

Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, United States

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Job Area:

Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management

General Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Developer Advocate with a background in AI to deliver a comprehensive developer experience for third-party developers. These external developers will be developing diverse AI applications using the Snapdragon AI APIs and optimized libraries to interface with other subsystem components available on Snapdragon.

As a senior member of the team responsible for the AI application developer experience on the Snapdragon compute platform, you will have the opportunity to provide AI application developers with sample applications. These will include clear use of interfaces and templates which will allow developers to test their proprietary models on Qualcomm hardware (such as Windows on Snapdragon) and access valuable performance metrics to optimize their models. You will also work with internal application/customer engineering teams to address queries from the application developer ecosystem regarding the use of Snapdragon AI APIs and support enhancements to the sample applications as needed. Through this experience, you will be well-positioned to drive improvements into the SW stack including SDK, Tools, and documentation. This role will require you to work closely with development leads, software and hardware architects, project engineers, product managers, customer engineers, OEMs, OS partners, and application developers.

The ideal candidate has experience in building end-to-end applications for one or more of Computer Vision, Audio, LVM, LLM use cases using AI/ML tools/workflow on Linux/Windows for CPU, GPU, and AI accelerators.

Responsibilities:

  1. Develop plans to engage with external developers focused on at least one of the following application areas: IoT, Automotive, Microsoft device ecosystem.
  2. Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware engineering, developer marketing, and product management teams.
  3. Understand trends in ML model design and workflow through application developer engagements and the latest academic research.
  4. Develop and ensure sample application comprehensiveness for AI on Linux/Windows on Snapdragon to cover the gamut of models used and use-cases including additional Snapdragon optimized libraries.
  5. Interface with 3rd party application developers and other cross-site and cross-functional teams to arrive at easy-to-use sample applications and documentation.
  6. Contribute new features and designs to the Qualcomm AI toolkit to enhance the workflow experience of Application Developers.

This is an office-based position located in San Diego, CA.

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
  2. 4+ years of Product Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
  2. Excellent understanding of AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), GPU programming, and parallel computing. Experience with large language models/foundational models development and deployment is a plus.
  3. Good understanding of the complete AI Software stack and familiarity with AI performance tuning techniques on GPU, NPU-based systems.
  4. Experience with the development of end-to-end AI applications on Windows using Windows ML, DirectML.
  5. Experience in the full workflow involved in training and deployment of models on servers and porting to client Windows compute platforms.
  6. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++.
  7. Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both non-technical and technical stakeholders.
  8. Strong leadership abilities to motivate and guide development teams.
  9. Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
  10. Demonstrated ability to learn, think, and adapt in a fast-changing environment.
  11. Familiarity with software development methodologies, version control systems, and agile project management practices.
  12. 12+ years of experience in application development involving High Performance Computing with 5+ years in AI application development on Windows.
  13. Bachelor's in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$162,400.00 - $243,600.00. The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. 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. In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers (http://www.qualcomm.com/contact/corporate).

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