Staff Technical Program Manager
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
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.
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%.
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.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity