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Responsibilities:

• Own delivery of complex, cross-functional aerospace and defense programs—spanning autonomy development, flight test, integration, and certification.
• Drive technical execution rhythms across engineering, systems integration, certification, flight test, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the central point of coordination for internal teams, subcontractors, and government customers—ensuring alignment, transparency, and trust.
• Define and maintain detailed program plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify blockers early and drive resolution through structured problem-solving and escalation.
• Shape and manage program scopes and deliverables in alignment with contractual, technical, and business objectives.
• Support capture and proposal efforts by developing cost estimates, technical inputs, and schedules.
• Lead stakeholder communications—from internal reviews to formal customer engagements and milestone briefings.
• Build scalable processes and tools that improve execution velocity and visibility across projects.
• Travel up to 25% to support key integration events, flight test campaigns, and customer engagements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex technical programs—ideally within aerospace, defense, or autonomy.
• Demonstrated success delivering integrated hardware-software systems under high accountability.
• Technical fluency—you can engage deeply with engineers and recognize risks and tradeoffs.
• Expert-level project management skills—tools, methods, and the ability to bring order to chaos.
• Strong communicator—able to engage diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to work within dynamic environments and adapt to evolving priorities.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret Security Clearance.

Nice to Haves:

• Active U.S. Security Clearance.
• Experience leading defense programs with DoD and/or FAA certification elements.
• Background in autonomous systems, flight control, or avionics integration.
• Familiarity with U.S. DoD airworthiness, flight test planning, and acquisition processes.