Senior Director, Engineering (Chief of Staff to SVP and Head of Data Center Engineering)
Qualcomm· Semiconductors· Sep 17, 2026 · 1mo ago
San Diego, California, United States of America
In office
Full-time
Head
$200K–$259K est.
12+ years exp
Job description
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Engineering Operations
General Summary:
The Chief of Staff will serve as a strategic and operational partner to the SVP BU Engineering Lead for Data Center BU Engineering. This role will help drive execution across Data Center AI, CPU, custom silicon, networking, hardware systems, and global engineering priorities. Guided and empowered by the SVP BU Engineering Lead, the Chief of Staff will manage operating cadence, coordinate cross-functional execution, improve decision velocity, and ensure clear alignment across engineering, product, program management, finance, operations, talent acquisition, and executive stakeholders. Prior experience serving in a Chief of Staff or equivalent executive operations capacity is preferred, particularly in complex engineering, semiconductor, AI, cloud, or data center environments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Strategic Planning: Partner with the SVP BU Engineering Lead and the Data Center BU Engineering leadership team to define, prioritize, and execute strategic initiatives across AI inference processors, AI software enablement, server CPU, custom silicon, networking, hardware systems, and rack-scale engineering.
• Operational Management: Drive the operating rhythm for the organization, including leadership reviews, execution tracking, staffing priorities, roadmap alignment, budget visibility, and follow-through on critical decisions. Navigate complex matrix structures and influence across engineering, product, finance, HR, operations, and executive teams.
• Communication Liaison: Act as a trusted point of coordination between the SVP BU Engineering Lead, Data Center BU Engineering leaders, peer organizations, and key stakeholders. Prepare executive-ready communications, leadership updates, decision briefs, organizational messages, and follow-up action plans.
• Project Management: Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution, including engineering buildout plans, leadership hiring priorities, AI300 readiness, hardware systems scale-up, and process improvements that increase organizational speed and accountability.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish and manage key performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to track hiring, program execution, engineering milestones, budget, risks, and organizational capacity.
• Problem-Solving: Identify execution gaps, organizational bottlenecks, and decision blockers; develop practical options, escalate appropriately, and drive closure with clear ownership and timelines.
• Meeting Coordination: Shape agendas, materials, and follow-through for key leadership forums, staff meetings, operating reviews, customer-facing discussions, and executive updates to ensure meetings are focused, decision-oriented, and productive.
• Executive Support: Coordinate with the SVP BU Engineering Lead’s administrative support and leadership team to prioritize executive meetings, customer engagements, travel, internal reviews, and stakeholder follow-ups.
• Risk Assessment: Evaluate risks across roadmap execution, staffing, customer commitments, organizational scale, and cross-functional dependencies; provide recommendations that enable timely and informed decisions
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, or related field and 12+ years of business operations or related experience.
OR
Associate's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, or related field and 14+ years of business operations or related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Operations, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in engineering operations, strategy, product/program execution, or business operations within semiconductor, cloud, AI, data center, or infrastructure environments.
• Prior experience as Chief of Staff, business operations leader, or executive operations partner supporting an SVP/GM-level engineering or business leader is strongly preferred.
• Strong technical and business acumen with the ability to operate across AI hardware, software platforms, CPU, networking, custom silicon, hardware systems, and customer-facing engineering priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, drive clarity in ambiguity, manage executive communications, and deliver results in a fast-moving, matrixed global organization.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$226,400.00 - $339,600.00
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. 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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