# Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering, Software Systems, Distributed Infrastructure, Dsp, Rf, Embedded Systems, Real-Time Systems, Delivery Processes, Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-06-15

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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