Staff Program Manager, Camera Processors Software

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. 

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.

This is an office based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of Program Management or related work experience.

*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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of end‑to‑end SoC software and firmware across multiple products.
• Working knowledge of non-Android OS SW stack, such as V4L2, Gstreamer, libcamera, etc.
• Understanding of Camera system architecture, software stacks, image/video processing concepts, SoC constraints, and Cross‑Functional Interfaces (AI/Display/Video/DDR/CPU)
• Android Camera Stack: Camera HAL, Camera Service, Framework vs vendor responsibilities
• Expertise in Android/Linux release trains, dependency management, and milestone governance.
• Proven ability to drive disciplined execution through Feature Review Boards (FRB)/Change Control Boards (CCB), checkpoints, and program metrics.
• Strong judgment in balancing customer commitments, roadmap priorities, and engineering capacity.
• Strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles, and how cross‑domain milestones impact integrated planning and execution.
• Ability to engage across a broad range of SoC software topics, including software planning for new silicon, silicon bring‑up, power dashboards, software stability, test gates, and defect/bug convergence.
• Demonstrated experience in software program management with a strong focus on Linux Kernel and/or Android platforms.
• Previous software engineering experience e.g. Audio, Video, Display, Camera, Graphics in the Linux or Android space
• Ability to work onsite five days per week and operate effectively within a multi‑site, globally distributed development model.

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 multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
•    Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
•    Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.
•    Exercising exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.
•    Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
•    Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations. 

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$175,300.00 - $262,900.00

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. 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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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