Program Technical Manager

As one of the technical leaders for the company, the candidate should complement the existing team and bring a depth in a domain or discipline that extends our capabilities. They should also be comfortable providing training and mentoring to staff in these areas. The Program Technical Manager also helps formulate intellectual property strategies to minimize solution costs and to generate company value. The ideal candidate encourages an environment that promotes excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork. This role will report to the EVP of Product Development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or relevant technical degree
• 10+ years of relevant and progressive professional experience
• Subject matter expertise and hands-on experience in software development and/or algorithm, machine learning model development for complex systems
• Demonstrated experience in translating customer needs to high-level requirements, success criteria, feature definitions, feature requirements, and design specifications
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams to meet program objectives and deliver high quality solutions to the customer
• Demonstrated ability to identify, manage, and mitigate program technical risks
• Track record of successful program completions demonstrating the final solution/product and value proposition to the end customer
• Strong presentation skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Ability to work under pressure and within deadlines
• United States Citizenship

Desired Skills

Experience in the following areas is strongly desired

• Familiarity with government contracts, processes, and program execution
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) including familiarity with a modeling language like UML, SysML, or a defense architecture framework
• Ability to work and communicate complex problems at multiple levels of abstraction
• Modeling & Simulation
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture and patterns
• Expertise in developing algorithms for sensor signal processing using statistical methods
• Expertise in developing image/video processing algorithms using traditional computer vision and/or machine learning techniques
• Expertise in modern AI and machine learning frameworks, concepts, model development, hyper-parameter tuning, and model deployment
• Expertise in processing large volumes of data, feature extraction, and using data science techniques to extract useful information
• Experience in heterogeneous data fusion to create higher levels of actionable information and intelligence
• Knowledge of sensor modalities such as active RF, passive RF, EO/IR, LiDAR, acoustic, magnetic etc.
• Understanding capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs of technologies across engineering subject matters

Key Responsibilities

• Define sub-system architecture, algorithms, key technical attributes, and tasks required to develop products and solutions
• Define acceptance criteria for technical work and definition of done for tasks
• Work with development team to estimate efforts and resource needs to accomplish feature development, release goals, and milestones
• Mentor and provide technical oversight to engineers working on the program to achieve function, schedule, and budgets
• Determine if the product/solution meets acceptance criteria and achieves the value proposition for customer
• Work collaboratively with program manager to assist in planning program activities, manage resources, effectively manage program budgets, and identify/manage/mitigate program risks
• Prepare, write, and review technical reports for submission to external customers
• Plan, prepare, and conduct program reviews and program demonstrations for government customers
• Work closely with cross-functional team to deliver high quality solutions that accomplish program and Company objectives
• Interface with customer technical representatives to build customer confidence and trust
• Contribute to proposals, writing technical approaches, statement of work, task breakdown, effort estimates, and preparing cost volume
• Support business development efforts by creating quad charts, writing white papers, and participating in meetings to support BD from a technical perspective
• Provide leadership and contribute to development process improvements and other operational improvement initiatives