Systems Engineering Project Manager

TITLE - Systems Engineering Project Manager

Alameda, California(Hybrid)







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Senior Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Lead program planning and execution, developing and maintaining integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, work-back plans, dependencies, and resource assumptions.

• Drive cross-functional delivery across Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, software, hardware, quality, and other technical teams to ensure alignment with program objectives.

• Facilitate planning and governance sessions to define scope, deliverables, sequencing, priorities, key decisions, and delivery commitments.

• Monitor project performance and execution, identifying schedule variance, constraints, dependencies, and resource issues while coordinating mitigation and recovery actions.

• Facilitate Agile/Scrum and hybrid project-management processes, including backlog, sprint/release planning, prioritization, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.

• Establish effective team operating practices that promote transparency, accountability, communication, and predictable delivery across workstreams.

• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and changes, coordinating impact assessments, mitigation plans, escalations, and resolution through completion.

• Coordinate cross-project interfaces and stakeholder communication, documenting decisions, assumptions, action items, and rationale while escalating issues requiring leadership direction.

• Develop leadership-ready reporting and project analytics, including dashboards, status reports, action/decision logs, milestone tracking, and planned-versus-actual performance.

• Support supplier, resource, and financial management, including work-package definition, supplier performance tracking, effort/budget inputs, contractor planning, knowledge transfer, and project transition activities.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, or a related discipline

• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience supporting product development, engineering, software, or technology programs.

• Demonstrated experience developing and managing integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications.

• Experience facilitating cross-functional teams in a fast-paced development environment.

• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience applying them in practice.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, communication, and meeting-facilitation skills.

• Ability to work effectively with technical subject-matter experts while translating discussions into actionable plans and documented outcomes.

• Familiarity with systems engineering, product line engineering, systems integration, verification planning, requirements management, and digital/model-based engineering practices.

• Experience with tools such as Airtable, Cameo, MagicDraw, DOORS/IBM ELM, Windchill, Jira, Confluence, Tasktop, or comparable systems engineering and collaboration platforms.

• Experience supporting hardware, embedded software, digital/cloud products, engineering platforms, or IT systems, including EVMS and structured financial/project performance reporting.

• Experience in medical devices, life sciences, or other regulated product-development environments; PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or comparable certification preferred.

This position allows for a hybrid setup. Qualified candidates must be able to travel to Alameda, CA on a quarterly basis, at minimum.

Pankaj Kumar

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