Senior Director, Technology (Santa Clara)

Company:
Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

Research, innovate and provide SoC architecture platforms and solutions for all SoC's across QCT. Engage collaboratively across teams and organizational boundaries, including with Hardware design & Verification, Software, Product Management and Product Planning teams to create leading SoC-wide solutions that provide the best-in-class cost, performance, and power. Develop, model and prototype new system solutions and approaches across functional tech IPs that allow our hardware technologies to be used efficiently and allow our customers to make better use of our hardware. Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture solutions. Deploy simulators, profilers, and hardware solutions to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions. Efficiently communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, and analyze outstanding issues. Innovate and develop new cross-IP SoC-wide solutions that enable existing and emerging market SoCs to meet their separate, unique product requirements for these technology areas: Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands, Debug, Safety, ARM Compliance, Exclusive Monitors and Far Atomics, Coherency, Memory Ordering, Memory Management, Virtualization, Control Processors, Signaling, Compression, Streaming, Always-On and system level ML.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 9+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Preferred Qualifications:
Master's or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
8+ years of experience with programming (e.g., C, C++, Python), computer architecture, or embedded systems.
3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).
4+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports (only applies to positions with direct reports).
2+ years of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Owns architecture for the system and works cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to drive the definition of requirements (e.g., performance, power, cost).
Guides the identification of architecture enhancements.
Acts as an expert resource across the department for efficiently identifying and resolving the most complex issues; oversees model/design reviews, ensures alignment with customer needs, and influences overall product/technology roadmap and Qualcomm strategy.
Strategically adds value to platform, methodology, and tools for modeling. Creates technical vision for modeling, simulations, and analyses of power, performance, and other KPIs at the system level; determines impact of results on current and future system or customer requirements and oversees architectural decisions across the organization.
Sets the strategic direction for consulting with and influencing external partners to develop long-term SoC implementation strategies and plans that align technical and business goals of all stakeholders.
Acts as an expert resource in niche areas and forward looking technologies related to industry trends, competitors' products, and advances in various engineering fields related to areas of specialization; shares this information across teams and the organization; directs research topics for team based on resources available.
Drives the strategic evolution across domains and defines product/technology roadmaps by collaborating with senior stakeholders across the business.
Creates and communicates an organizational-wide, long-term vision to lead the industry in SoC architecture; drives teams to develop innovative ideas for new directions to explore.
Sets guidelines for the department for writing detailed technical documentation, specifications, and/or feature descriptions to ensure different audiences can easily understand. Writes and reviews documentation to ensure it can be easily understood by a variety of audiences.

Level of Responsibility:
Works independently with no supervision.
Provides supervision to other supervisors/managers who are direct reports.
Decisions are more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives. Errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; Errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.
Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.
Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.
Most tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short or long-term memory while performing the task.
Makes overall determination with what needs to be done to drive implementation of innovative ideas/processes etc.
Works on abstract problems in unique situations that require intricate analysis, and evaluation of ambiguous factors. Directs the resolution of highly complex, unusual, or abstract business problems across functional or organization lines. Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies, and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
Develop and redesigns organizational strategies and provides overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$310,600.00 - $465,800.00

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