Systems Analyst, Senior Staff - Demand Planning & Capacity Strategy

Company: Qualcomm Incorporated Job Area: Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > Systems Analysis General Summary: At Qualcomm, the compute and storage resources that build next-generation silicon have to be planned years before the first chip is designed. Global Demand Management is the team responsible for that planning. We forecast and justify how much compute, storage, and AI capacity the engineering organization will need, when it will need it, and what it will cost, and the company commits hundreds of millions of dollars against our answer. We are hiring a senior staff demand analyst to own that forecast methodology end to end. You will translate silicon product roadmaps and tapeout schedules into multi-year demand plans, size and justify the capital purchases that meet them, and present the resulting capacity position to engineering and finance leadership. The work is quantitative, highly cross-functional, and directly visible to executives. You will also set the analytical direction for a team of analysts who build on your models, reviewing their work, raising their craft, and leaving the practice stronger and better documented than you found it. The environment you will plan for This is global planning at scale. The engineering grid spans tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of petabytes of storage across four primary data centers and roughly sixty smaller sites worldwide, supporting more than a hundred and fifty engineering teams across eleven business units. AI and GPU capacity is the fastest-growing and most contested part of that estate, and shaping how it gets allocated is a visible part of this role. The annual capital and operating plan you will help build runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the planning horizon extends three or more fiscal years out. This is an office-based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy. This is a U.S. based position and is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Listed in order of priority. Own long-range demand forecasting and capacity planning for AI systems, compute, storage, GPU, and emulation across hardware and software engineering on a rolling multi-year horizon, sizing and recommending the capacity purchases that meet it against defined deficit thresholds, and carrying each commitment from plan through quoting, approval, delivery, and installation. Own the annual budget submission and the quarterly rolling forecast cycle with Budget Operations and Finance, including capital and operating expense framing, pricing analysis, and the written demand narrative that justifies every material change to senior leadership. Translate product roadmaps and tapeout schedules into demand deltas and maintain strict version traceability between each roadmap release and the forecast cycle it supports, so that every budget submission reconciles to the baseline it was built on. Attribute year-over-year demand growth to its underlying drivers using quantitative decomposition, so that capital requests are defended with measured contributions rather than narrative alone. Consolidate demand planning for newly acquired businesses operating outside the standard process, normalizing fragmented inputs from multiple geographies into Qualcomm planning formats, validating stated capacity requirements against utilization evidence, and managing rental and interim capacity spend. Own the forecasting methodology and the planning toolset end to end: maintain and continuously improve the models, decision rules, and utilization analytics that inform them; apply AI and automation to move forecasting beyond manual spreadsheet work; document the assumptions, thresholds, and conventions behind them; set the standards for the executive reporting built on them; serve as the escalation path across engineering, finance, data center services, operations, and procurement when capacity demands conflict; and mentor