Senior Technical Program Manager – Autonomy

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement intake and refinement for autonomy capabilities including perception, path planning, guidance/navigation/control (GNC), and multi-agent or swarm behaviors.
• Translate product and mission intent into clear, testable engineering requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability from initiatives through epics, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Enforce scope discipline and manage changes through an explicit intake and change-control process.
• Maintain Jira initiative, epic, and story status; manage blocked-initiative tracking and coordinate state transitions.
• Enforce Jira hygiene, including fields, labels, components, workflows, and definitions of ready and done.
• Run Autonomy team sprint planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Manage cross-team dependencies across Autonomy, Core, Systems, Solutions, and Release Engineering.
• Produce concise, audience-relevant technical briefs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical program or project management experience for software or autonomy engineering teams.
• Demonstrated mastery of requirements management, including intake, refinement, traceability, and change control.
• Hands-on experience with autonomy systems such as unmanned or robotic vehicle platforms, perception, path planning, GNC, or multi-agent/swarm coordination.
• High Jira fluency, including dashboards, workflows, and custom reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience establishing and driving adoption of process frameworks or operating models.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Ability to work in a hybrid on-site environment with travel.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in autonomy, robotics, aerospace, or defense programs.
• Familiarity with simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), or autonomous-system field testing.
• Agile or project management certifications such as SAFe, Scrum Alliance, PMP, or Lean Six Sigma.
• Experience in product management, change management, or process improvement.
• Experience in highly technical AI and autonomy environments.

Benefits and Compensation

• Competitive salary and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Equity grants for new hires.
• Unlimited PTO and 11 paid holidays.
• Generous company holiday calendar and holiday hiatus.
• Parental leave and military leave.
• FSA, DCFSA, and HSA options.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Access to One Medical.
• 24/7 mental health resources, therapy, and work-life services including legal and financial support.