Senior Quality Technical Program Manager

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.


Job Description:

Join a high-impact quality engineering team driving reliability, validation, and execution excellence across next-generation autonomous systems. This role partners across engineering, test, manufacturing, and program leadership to ensure quality objectives are embedded throughout the product lifecycle. You will lead cross-functional quality initiatives by managing validation efforts, driving issue resolution, tracking technical risk, and improving engineering execution through data-driven program management.

We are seeking a Quality Engineering Technical Program Manager (TPM) with experience leading complex hardware or aerospace quality programs, including validation planning, root cause analysis, reliability tracking, and cross-functional execution.

What you'll do:

• Lead cross-functional quality engineering programs spanning validation, integration, manufacturing readiness, and field reliability
• Drive issue triage, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and closure tracking for system-level failures
• Develop and manage quality plans, schedules, metrics, and risk tracking across engineering teams
• Coordinate verification and validation activities across hardware, software, manufacturing, and test organizations
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve release readiness, defect reduction, and development processes
• Analyze quality and reliability trends to identify systemic issues and improve product performance

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in technical program management, quality engineering, systems engineering, or validation leadership in complex hardware or aerospace environments
• Strong understanding of root cause analysis, corrective actions, and reliability tracking
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs across engineering, manufacturing, and test organizations
• Experience managing technical risk, program dependencies, and execution tradeoffs in fast-paced development programs
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to drive alignment and accountability across teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems programs
• Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, or regulated engineering environments
• Experience with reliability testing, systems integration, or manufacturing quality
• Experience using data and automation tools such as Python, SQL, Jira, Power BI, or Tableau to improve quality visibility and execution

$120,000 - $180,000 a year

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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