Staff Program Manager

Qualcomm • Santa Clara, CA

2d • $202,000 - $303,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The NPI Program Manager drives execution from silicon tape-out through RTP and production ramp. The role manages silicon fab and OSAT deliveries, customer sample delivery, and qualification planning, serving as an interface among the PDTE team, Business Unit PM, supply chain, fab, OSAT, test house, and customers to support timely product development, qualification, ramp, and production.

This position requires full-time onsite work at Qualcomm’s Santa Clara, California office five days per week. The role is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship. It involves working independently with little supervision and making significant decisions on complex work. The position does not include financial accountability or budgeting responsibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of Program Management or related work experience; completed relevant advanced degrees may substitute for up to two years of this experience (Master’s degree: one year; doctorate: two years).
• At least 10 years of semiconductor industry experience.
• Experience with ASIC, SoC, advanced-node, and advanced semiconductor packaging.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, assembly, and test.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in the Santa Clara, California office five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Manage execution from post-silicon tape-out through RTP and production ramp.
• Own program schedules, milestone tracking, deliverables, risk management, and periodic reporting.
• Ensure phase-gate reviews, customer sample delivery, qualification builds, and RTP.
• Manage cross-functional teams, communications, and escalations.
• Coordinate with engineering and supply chain teams on schedules, milestones, and planning for fab, OSAT, and test house; customer and engineering sample forecasting; material readiness; and engineering, qualification, and production scheduling.
• Support silicon bring-up and yield improvement initiatives.
• Use data analytics to support decision-making, post-silicon bring-up in collaboration with DFT, and continuous yield improvement.
• Serve as the primary customer interface, manage customer escalations, and ensure resolution of technical and operational issues.
• Build collaborative relationships across internal and customer teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and program sponsors to develop program goals, prioritize deliverables, address business-process involvement, and drive decisions necessary for on-time delivery.
• Manage multiple medium-sized programs or technologies of moderate complexity and their Plan of Record, including schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholder identification, communications, scope, and prioritization.
• Establish program metrics and drive corrective action when results deviate from the Plan of Record.
• Identify and secure resources aligned with program or technology demand.
• Lead teams in identifying program issues and risks, developing mitigation plans, and maintaining risk trackers.
• Promote program vision and objectives, ensure objectives are met or exceeded, present the vision to management, and gain stakeholder buy-in.
• Promote process adoption and best practices and identify and execute process-improvement initiatives across the Program Management team.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus).
• Competitive benefits package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior