Staff Program Manager

Job Posting Date

2025-10-23

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Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

General Summary:

he Global System-On-Chip team at Qualcomm is looking to hire a Program Manager responsible for driving CAD tools and flow enablement across multiple SoC programs, ensuring alignment with design, verification, and EDA teams. This role demands strategic planning, cross-functional coordination, and execution oversight to deliver optimized CAD infrastructure for advanced technology nodes. The successful candidate will work in partnership with the Engineering organization and Program Managers across Qualcomm sites to plan, monitor and deliver to tens of SOCs every year. The ideal candidate would be able to leverage their engineering background to proactively lead the planning and execution of cutting-edge CAD tools and flow development & deployment from concept to mass commercialization. The opportunity to work with industry leading foundries and global engineering teams on latest technology nodes is a key highlight.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership of Program Management team for CAD tool & flow enablement
• Manages and takes responsibility for CAD tools/flow enablement across industry leading technology nodes.
• Lead the strategic roadmap planning process for CAD team – develop forecasts for portfolio of programs, identify resource demands and gaps and secure approval for resource funding from executive management.
• Develops and manages the execution of the program Plan of Record (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope) for Technology enablement across multiple Process nodes, which includes schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholders identification, communication, scoping, and prioritization.
• Partner with Engineering leads and Program Managers across sites to deliver resource and schedule forecasts, demand, and gap analysis etc. for Product Council Reviews.
• Interface with EDA vendors, IT, and internal Engineering stakeholders to resolve tool issues and infrastructure gaps.
• Maintain dashboards and trackers for flow health, tool status, and project coverage.
• Present updates in weekly CAD forums and summits
• Drives teams to identify program issues/risks, and creates a risk mitigation plan for complex programs.
• Promotes adoption of processes by applying best practices and identifying and executing continuous process improvement initiatives

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of CAD tools (e.g., Innovus, PrimeTime, Tweaker, Spyglass, JasperGold).
• Experience in SoC design flows, including synthesis, PnR, STA, PV, PDN, and DFT.
• Strong program management and stakeholder communication skills.
• Familiarity with AWS-based CAD validation and flow migration.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 4+ years of Program Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• PMP Certification
• 10+ years of Program Management or related work experience
• Prior experience in managing CAD enablement for advanced nodes.
• Proven track record in driving tool efficiency and flow optimization.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex dependencies

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$171,200.00 - $256,800.00

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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