Technical Program Manager, Digital

Responsibilities

• Maintain real-time visibility into engineering delivery risk across Digital products: modem pipelines, beamforming, telemetry, scheduling, and ground-station software
• Own the software development lifecycle across these products: build and maintain execution plans, dependency maps, and delivery schedules, and drive clarity on priorities, ownership, technical debt, and operational readiness
• Build the processes, tooling, and visibility that let teams coordinate without relying on proximity and ad-hoc alignment
• Identify and drive resolution of integration risks across the hardware/software and cross-domain boundaries; escalate to engineering leadership when team-level resolution fails
• Coordinate testing and validation across simulation, staging, lab, and deployed environments
• Partner with mission management and participate directly in customer meetings, translating engineering state into an honest read on delivery risk for programs and customers
• Flag staffing gaps to the relevant functional leads, who make the staffing call
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve development velocity, operational reliability, and deployment readiness

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering, or technical engineering leadership
• Strong technical understanding of software systems and distributed infrastructure
• Experience working with DSP, RF, embedded, or real-time systems teams
• Track record of building delivery processes and tooling, not just running existing ones

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SDRs, modem systems, satellite communications, wireless, or telecom infrastructure
• Familiarity with DSP concepts such as filtering, synchronization, modulation/demodulation, channel estimation, or beamforming
• Experience coordinating FPGA, embedded Linux, or high-performance compute efforts
• Experience in customer-facing or program-interface roles
• Aerospace, defense, or mission-critical systems experience
• Familiarity with ITAR, classified systems, or regulated operational environments