Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Program Analyst
General Summary:
Key Responsibilities
Product Lifecycle & Program Execution
- Develop a strong understanding of the end‑to‑end product lifecycle, including NPI, Customer Sampling (CS), post‑CS sustaining, and transition to high‑volume manufacturing.
- Track and support key program milestones, including test hardware, product revisions, quality events, and operational change points, ensuring minimal disruption to supply and schedules.
- Identify critical paths and risks across sustaining activities and communicate impacts, mitigation plans, and tradeoffs to core stakeholders.
Build Planning & Supply Execution
- Generate and maintain build plans based on demand inputs from engineering and business teams, with ongoing adjustments to support post‑CS changes and sustaining needs.
- Drive execution of build plans with external suppliers, tracking material readiness, work‑in‑process (WIP), and finished goods to meet evolving program requirements.
- Identify material and hardware requirements (including test hardware and special configurations) and work with suppliers to ensure timely procurement considering lead times and constraints.
Test Flow Changes & Enablement
- Support execution of test flow updates by coordinating material, test hardware, and supplier readiness in alignment with engineering change requirements.
- Track implementation of test and manufacturing changes across suppliers, ensuring alignment to approved schedules and minimizing operational risk.
- Act as an operations interface between engineering teams and suppliers to ensure test flow updates are executed accurately and consistently.
Binning & Manufacturing Enablement Operations
- Support binning strategy enablement by coordinating operational readiness across suppliers, including material availability, system setup, and execution tracking.
- Monitor binning‑related build execution and work cross‑functionally to resolve issues impacting yield, throughput, or delivery commitments.
- Ensure operational changes related to binning and product configuration are properly communicated, executed, and sustained.
Supplier & Stakeholder Management
- Communicate build requests, changes, and priorities to suppliers clearly and in a timely manner.
- Create purchase requisitions, track PO approvals, monitor build progress, and provide regular status updates to Program Management and chip/chipset teams.
- Lead regular operations reviews with program and engineering stakeholders to align on status, risks, and next steps.
- Troubleshoot supplier issues and work collaboratively to develop alternative schedules, processes, or mitigation plans as needed.
Transition & Sustaining Support
- Partner with production and operations teams to ensure a smooth transition from NPI into sustaining and high‑volume manufacturing.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying operational gaps, inefficiencies, or risks observed during post‑CS execution.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
OR
Associate's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience.
OR
High School Diploma or equivalent and 4+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing flows, test operations, and supply chain fundamentals.
- Experience supporting post‑CS or sustaining operations, including execution of change management in a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams with shifting priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working across engineering, operations, and supplier organizations.
- Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools; experience tracking complex execution plans is a plus.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$101,800.00 - $152,800.00
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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