Technical Program Manager Jobs in Poway, CA (NOW HIRING)

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management
General Summary:
GSOC (Global-System-On-a-Chip) organization is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive the execution, governance, adoption, and operational readiness of Agentic AI capabilities across engineering workflows. This role will partner with engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and platform teams to enable agentic execution workflows through AI platforms and Foundations. The role is responsible for driving Agentic AI enablement, secure management of AI artifacts, cross-functional roadmap execution, platform adoption, qualification readiness, and alignment of GSOC and Qualcomm specific AI Foundations technology strategies to support scalable deployment of AI-powered engineering workflows.
The successful candidate will lead cross-functional programs that improve engineering productivity through AI-enabled workflows, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, execution against shared roadmaps, adoption of new capabilities, and implementation of secure governance mechanisms for agentic AI assets and platforms. The role will serve as a key interface between GSOC, Qualcomm AI Foundations (internal organization/platform team responsible for enterprise AI infrastructure and enablement), Cybersecurity, GMRD (GSOC Machine Learning R&D, an internal applied AI/ML engineering team), and engineering teams to help scale the next generation of AI-enabled engineering solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Program Leadership

• Lead execution of strategic Agentic AI initiatives across GSOC.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and executive status reporting.
• Establish program governance, operating rhythms, execution metrics, and program review mechanisms to ensure successful delivery.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations while balancing competing priorities and resource constraints.
• Facilitate technical reviews, roadmap discussions, decision-making forums, and executive communications.
• Drive issue resolution, dependency management, and risk mitigation across participating teams.

Agent Development & Qualification Tracking

• Track overall agent development activities to ensure alignment toward common system objectives and program milestones.
• Drive roadmap execution, milestone tracking, dependency management, and readiness reviews for agentic AI initiatives.
• Track and support benchmark creation and qualification activities for agent deployments.
• Define and monitor operational metrics, qualification readiness indicators, and program health measurements.
• Support continuous improvement of agent development processes through stakeholder feedback and data-driven decision making.

Platform Adoption & Enablement

• Track and drive adoption of Qualcomm AI platforms and related AI enablement platforms.
• Define and monitor adoption, usage, roadmap, qualification, and operational readiness metrics.
• Gather stakeholder feedback and partner with development teams to prioritize improvements and enhancements.
• Ensure visibility and awareness across engineering organizations regarding available AI capabilities, roadmap priorities, and deployment readiness.

CCI / Secure Asset Management

• Lead coordination of Company Confidential Information/Secure Asset Management initiatives supporting Agentic AI development. Agentic AI introduces new engineering artifacts including prompts, skills, rollouts, memories, and related AI assets that require appropriate classification, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with GMRD, Cybersecurity, Qualcomm AI Foundations, and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and implement mechanisms that meet security, compliance, and governance requirements while achieving optimal agentic performance.
• Drive alignment of governance processes, asset management requirements, access controls, qualification criteria, and operational readiness activities associated with Agentic AI solutions.
• Track execution and closure of security, compliance, and governance-related program milestones.

Qualcomm AI Foundations Tracking, Alignment & GSOC Enablement

• Serve as the primary program management interface between GSOC and Qualcomm AI Foundations teams to ensure alignment of infrastructure, platform capabilities, and roadmap priorities.
• Manage and coordinate GSOC requests requiring support from Qualcomm AI Foundations, helping consolidate and prioritize requests originating from multiple stakeholder groups.
• Track and align Qualcomm AI Foundations and platforms, and GSOC technology roadmaps to ensure dependencies, deliverables, and readiness milestones remain synchronized.
• Drive visibility, communication, dependency management, and executive reporting related to AI platform enablement initiatives across participating organizations.
• Identify roadmap gaps, execution risks, and resource conflicts and facilitate resolution through appropriate stakeholder engagement and escalation.
• Support the shared roadmap required to enable agentic workflows across engineering domains and readiness for deployment into production engineering environments.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate activities across GSOC, GMRD, Qualcomm AI Foundations, Cybersecurity, infrastructure, and engineering organizations.
• Build strong partnerships with technical leaders, architects, development teams, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate program status, risks, decisions, and trade-offs to both technical and executive audiences.
• Operate effectively in fast-paced, highly technical, and evolving environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of Program Management or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Software development, software engineering, platform engineering, AI/ML engineering, or technical product development background.
• Experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI systems, AI agents, copilots, LLM-based solutions, workflow automation, RAG systems, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience working with AI platform deployment, adoption, governance, qualification, or operational readiness programs.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, compliance, secure development practices, data governance, or access-control frameworks.
• Experience building dashboards, KPIs, adoption metrics, roadmap metrics, and executive-level program reporting.
• Experience driving large-scale cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with semiconductor development, silicon engineering, validation, emulation, design verification, engineering productivity platforms, or technical infrastructure programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent program management certification.

Why Join GSOC
This role provides a unique opportunity to help shape how AI and agentic technologies are deployed across engineering organizations. You will work at the intersection of AI enablement, software platforms, governance, cybersecurity, and engineering productivity while helping define the operational framework for next-generation engineering workflows.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$126,400.00 - $189,600.00
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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