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Northwood SpaceNorthwood SpaceLos Angeles, CA

Technical Program Manager

Owns delivery visibility, risk management, and cross-team coordination for Digital products spanning backend, frontend, DSP, FPGA, and embedded systems. Requires 5+ years in TPM or systems engineering with strong software and real-time systems experience.

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On-site5+ YOETechnical Program Management

About the role

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

Requirements

  • 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

Nice-to-Haves

  • 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

Skills

Technical Program ManagementSystems EngineeringSoftware SystemsDistributed InfrastructureDspRfEmbedded SystemsReal-Time SystemsDelivery ProcessesTooling

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