Staff Technical Program Manager

You will lead complex UAS and autonomy program execution from requirements through deployment. You will own integrated plans, coordinate cross-functional integration and test work, manage technical and delivery risks, establish multi-team operating cadences, and communicate program status, decisions, and delivery outlook.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, or customer-delivery programs.
• Own integrated program plans covering scope, milestones, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and change control.
• Ensure requirements, interfaces, verification plans, test readiness, technical baselines, and customer acceptance criteria are clear and traceable.
• Lead cross-functional system integration and test execution.
• Resolve technical, programmatic, and cross-team issues through trade studies, mitigations, recovery plans, and leadership decisions.
• Establish multi-team delivery cadences for planning, reviews, demonstrations, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering teams, releases, and customer commitments.
• Communicate technical status, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and delivery outlook to stakeholders.
• Develop and use program metrics and dashboards.
• Mentor project engineers and technical leads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, computer science, physics, or a related STEM discipline.
• Typically 8–12+ years of experience in systems engineering, project engineering, technical program management, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, UAS, or a similar technical environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical programs and delivering integrated products, capabilities, or customer solutions.
• Systems-engineering experience including requirements management, traceability, interface management, system integration, verification and validation, test planning, and configuration or technical-baseline management.
• Program-management capability including integrated planning, scheduling, scope management, resource coordination, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and reporting.
• Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams or technical workstreams.
• Strong written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity