Staff Product Manager - Data Center High-Speed Connectivity & AI Infrastructure
About The Position
Join Qualcomm's Data Center Business Unit and help define the next generation of high-performance connectivity solutions powering hyperscale AI infrastructure. As a Staff Product Manager, you will drive product strategy, roadmap definition, customer engagement, and execution for high-speed connectivity technologies that enable AI scale-up and scale-out systems. Working across architecture, engineering, ecosystem partners, and hyperscale customers, you will help shape solutions spanning scale-up fabrics, high-speed I/O, optical networking, and rack-scale infrastructure. Qualcomm's connectivity portfolio includes advanced Serdes, optical, PCIe, and next-generation interconnect technologies that support scalable AI systems and custom silicon platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Humanities, or related field.
- 5+ years of Product Management or related work experience.
Nice To Haves
- 10+ years of experience in semiconductor, networking, connectivity, or AI infrastructure markets.
- Strong understanding of high-speed connectivity technologies including PCIe, Ethernet, optical interconnects, die-to-die communication, and chiplet ecosystems.
- Experience with AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, HPC systems, or cloud architectures.
- Understanding of scale-up and scale-out system architectures used in AI and machine learning deployments.
- Familiarity with advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, and high-bandwidth interconnect solutions.
- Experience driving products from concept through deployment.
- Strong financial, analytical, and market evaluation capabilities.
- Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
- Experience working directly with hyperscale customers, strategic partners, or industry standards organizations.
Responsibilities
- Define product strategy and multi-generation roadmaps for high-speed connectivity solutions supporting AI and cloud infrastructure.
- Develop market requirements, customer use cases, competitive positioning, and business cases for next-generation connectivity technologies.
- Identify emerging industry trends and customer requirements across AI networking, scale-up fabrics, scale-out architectures, chiplet ecosystems, and rack-scale infrastructure.
- Drive platform and ecosystem strategies that enable broad adoption across custom silicon and AI infrastructure deployments.
- Engage directly with customers, ecosystem partners, and industry consortiums to understand future connectivity requirements.
- Translate customer needs into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
- Support technical workshops, architecture reviews, customer briefings, and executive engagements.
- Develop compelling product value propositions and positioning for strategic customer opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with architecture and engineering teams to define system-level connectivity requirements and product capabilities.
- Drive alignment across silicon, software, systems, packaging, and infrastructure organizations.
- Provide product leadership for emerging interconnect technologies including die-to-die connectivity, chiplet ecosystems, scale-up fabrics, high-speed I/O, and optical networking solutions.
- Balance performance, scalability, power efficiency, cost, ecosystem adoption, and business objectives when defining product direction.
- Develop business cases, investment recommendations, pricing strategies, and customer engagement plans.
- Support product planning from concept through market deployment and adoption.
- Drive cross-functional execution across architecture, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing.
- Track product success using measurable business, customer, and execution metrics.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
