Staff Product Manager - IoT Software (Linux)
Qualcomm· Semiconductors· Sep 17, 2026 · 1mo ago
San Diego, California, United States of America
In office
Full-time
Staff
$180K–$232K est.
5+ years exp
Job description
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Product Management
General Summary:
Qualcomm is looking for a Staff Product Manager - Software, for its Industrial and Embedded IoT Business Unit to help define and promote Qualcomm chipsets for emerging use cases in various IoT segments. Successful candidates will define software product requirements, analyze business opportunities, perform gap analysis, drive execution, and help with go-to-market plans and global customer engagements. In addition, the candidate is expected to prioritize use cases, working closely with customers, partners, engineering, sales, and business development teams formulating and executing to product roadmaps. Overall, the candidate will oversee the entire product life cycle from conception to delivery, using open-source technical expertise and industry standards, strategic thinking, product and project management skills to ensure our product meets our customer needs.
The position requires strong expertise in business and systems analysis, strong interpersonal and effective communication skills, and the ability to collaborate and influence key stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Sales and Partner Management teams and across various functional teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
• 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
The key responsibilities of this role include
- Write software product and functional requirements understanding customer needs.
- Develop strategy and roadmap for our product offerings. Review and identify gaps in market based on complex analyses of overall ecosystem demands and provide recommendations to address such gaps that impact product roadmaps.
- Manage the product roadmap, lifecycle from product definition to product release. Review, prepare, and deliver technical presentations regarding product roadmaps, customer RFPs, and/or proposals to demonstrate and market product portfolios to customers and/or prospective customers, and integrate customer feedback into project roadmaps.
- Define scalable software architecture for IoT applications built on Linux. Expertise in RT kernels, industrial safety protocols and RTOS is a definite plus.
- Define the software roadmap of features across various IoT business segments and publish plan for commercialization. Oversee successful cross-functional collaboration by ensuring the completion of milestones and ensuring the completed work aligns with roadmap for a product line(s).
- Define the Linux software upstreaming strategy across various IPs, and partner with upstream community to ensure compliance of software frameworks used within our development model.
- Drive an extensive ecosystem of third-party software developers while identifying opportunities for software reuse, and architecture innovation that result in software roadmap optimizations that drive an efficient engineering execution strategy and a clear go to market strategy.
- Drive portfolios launch strategies and identify technical marketing and developer opportunities such as conferences, congresses, and direct customer contact and ensures successful product launch.
- Use 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.
- Have a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
- Complete 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.
- Exercise exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in engineering, computer science or MBA
- Experience owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and product tradeoffs
- Experience with open-source development model and business principles. Familiarity with embedded open-source software technology and ecosystem is a plus.
- Expertise in software frameworks and distributions based on Linux (e.g. Yocto, Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian).
- 5+ years of software product management experience managing medium to large scale embedded systems projects.
- Experienced working directly with engineers on product scoping and improvements
- Experienced leading engineering discussions around software technology decisions and strategies related to the product
- Knowledge of technologies such as containers, orchestration and virtualization
- Familiarity with Linux operating system integration and packaging policies
- Ability to manage multiple projects or product lines while ensuring focus on key roadmap priorities
- Effective communication skills with cross functional teams, both technical and non-technical, driving consensus around product requirements and strategy
This is an office-based position in San Diego, CA, and requires compliance with the company’s onsite work policy
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$181,800.00 - $272,600.00
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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