Qualcomm Elevates Pooja Upreti to Senior Director, Technology After Decade at Chipmaker

Qualcomm promoted Pooja Upreti to Senior Director, Technology, the company said, citing more than 23 years of semiconductor engineering experience. She previously served as Director, Engineering at Qualcomm, where she led chip design programs for automotive systems-on-chip. Hrtoday reported the promotion on November 15, 2026.

Upreti's Path Through Qualcomm Engineering

Upreti's promotion marks a decade-long career at Qualcomm, where she has moved through engineering management and leadership positions. Her experience spans automotive SoC development, memory controller verification, semiconductor architecture and chip design programs.

As Director, Engineering, Upreti managed engineering activities across the complete development lifecycle, from initial concept and design through tapeout and customer deployment. She oversaw technical functions involved in delivering automotive semiconductor platforms.

Previously, Upreti held the position of Principal/Manager, Engineering at Qualcomm, leading memory controller subsystem verification across multiple SoC platforms and architectures. Her work included verification for LPDDR4 and LPDDR5 memory technologies and coherent interconnect-integrated systems.

Earlier, Upreti served as Senior Staff, Engineering Manager at Qualcomm, leading SoC verification for Snapdragon-based mobile systems. She managed memory controller verification for mobile and modem chips and contributed to functional verification methodologies.

Before joining Qualcomm, Upreti spent more than five years at NVIDIA as Senior ASIC Verification Engineer, working on DDR memory controller verification, full-chip testing, system-level debugging and semiconductor validation. She also spent approximately seven years at STMicroelectronics as Technical Lead, contributing to CPU simulator development and processor IP verification for RISC, CISC and VLIW architectures, supporting microprocessor development across teams in the United Kingdom, France and India.

Upreti holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Qualcomm's Automotive and Data Center Leadership

According to akta.pro company records, Qualcomm's leadership includes Nakul Duggal as EVP and Group GM for Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, and Robotics, and Tony Pialis as EVP and GM, Data Center. Cristiano Amon is President and CEO, and Akash Palkhiwala is EVP, CFO and COO. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego.

Qualcomm's Recent Corporate Moves

Qualcomm agreed in June 2026 to acquire AI software startup Modular in an approximately $3.92 billion all-stock transaction, with closing expected in the second half of 2026, according to the same records. The company also announced a multi-year agreement with Meta Platforms to supply Dragonfly C1000 CPUs for Meta's next-generation data center server fleet, with production scheduled for the second half of 2028.

In November 2026, Qualcomm agreed to issue $4 billion of senior unsecured notes across five series, with interest rates from 5.00% to 5.80% and maturities from 2028 to 2036, TradingView reported. The same month, Qualcomm announced a multiyear agreement to supply chips and software for SpaceX's Starlink Mobile network, with deployment starting in 2027, Forbes reported.

Modular Acquisition Closing Timeline

Qualcomm expects its approximately $3.92 billion all-stock acquisition of Modular to close in the second half of 2026, according to company records.