Senior Hardware/Software Technical Program Manager

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Title: Senior Hardware/Software Technical Program Manager
Duration: Contract to start with. Potential to go Full-Time depending on performance.
Location: Houston, TX. If you live elsewhere, we will require you to be onsite in Houston 3 weeks in a month.
Benefits: Employee benefits at 100% including Medical, PTO, Holiday Pay, 401K Plan and much more!
Hours: Minimum 40 Hours/Week
Due to ITAR regulations, candidates must be a U.S person

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional delivery of our Orbital Compute platform, the secure, orchestrated edge-to-orbit compute system that pairs radiation-tolerant compute payloads with a Linux- and Rust-based software stack running NVIDIA-accelerated AI/ML workloads.
In this role, the successful candidate will own program planning and end-to-end execution across hardware, software, security, and systems teams, coordinating delivery across engineering groups of ten or more and driving programs from proof of concept through on-orbit deployment.
Operating in a fast-paced environment characterized by rapid iteration and significant ambiguity, the successful candidate will manage scope, schedule, dependencies, and risk along the critical path; work directly with customers and third-party
vendors to deliver integrated solutions; and serve as the connective tissue between the engineering teams and company leadership, translating technical detail into clear status, risk, and prioritization decisions. This role maybe filled at the Technical Program Manager or Senior Technical Program Manager level commensurate
with experience. This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own end-to-end delivery of cross-functional programs for the Orbital Compute platform, from inception through on-orbit deployment, spanning hardware, software, security, and systems engineering teams.
- Coordinate delivery across engineering groups of ten or more, aligning multiple teams the role does not directly manage to a shared plan, roadmap, and set of milestones
- Build and maintain integrated program plans — scope, schedule, dependencies, critical path, and resourcing — across parallel hardware and software workstreams
- Proactively assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, navigate tradeoffs, and unblock delivery; drive issues and escalations to resolution across teams
- Work directly with customers and third-party vendors and suppliers to deliver integrated solutions, managing external dependencies, interfaces, and integration milestones
- Own program status communication: deliver clear, concise summaries of progress, risk, and decisions to engineering leadership and executives, and run the program's operating cadence of reviews and planning
- Read and reason about system-level technical design and hold credible technical tradeoff discussions with senior engineers across the Linux, Rust, NVIDIA, and AI/ML stack
- Partner with engineering leads to scope efforts, set priorities, coordinate release schedules, and build the business cases that inform prioritization and investment decisions
- Build and improve sustainable delivery processes that accelerate execution, reduce cost, and raise quality
- Steward clear, accurate technical and program documentation
- Deliver iteratively and quickly in a fast-paced environment with significant ambiguity
- Perform additional job duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, or another related technical or quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
- Hands-on software development background, or equivalent depth, sufficient to read design documents and reason about distributed systems, service architectures, APIs, and the software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional programs, building processes, and coordinating release schedules across multiple engineering teams
- Strong project-management disciplines: scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical-path management
- Track record of leading delivery across engineering groups of ten or more
- Experience working directly with customers and third-party vendors to deliver integrated solutions
- Experience delivering integrated hardware-and-software products (hardware/software co-delivery, embedded, edge, or space systems) strongly preferred
- Technical fluency with Linux, Rust, the NVIDIA software stack (CUDA/GPU), and AI/ML workloads preferred
- Prefer experience with Agile/Scrum and modern program-tracking and CI/CD tooling
- Prefer experience delivering in regulated, secure, or export-controlled environments (ITAR/EAR); an active or prior U.S. Government security clearance is a plus
- track record of making things happen in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Uses good judgement to problem-solve proactively, positively impacting hard challenges
- Demonstrated organization skills to meet tight deadlines with high quality results
Core Skills
- Passion for space and the mission
- Entrepreneurial, growth mindset
- High EQ and ability to collaborate within teams and cross-functionally
- Influence without authority — driving cross-functional teams to deliver
- Tech-solutioning in using systems and tools to move smarter and faster
Core Competencies
- Program & Delivery Management
- Cross-Functional Coordination; Dependency Management
- Risk, Schedule, Critical-Path Management
- Stakeholder Management; Executive Communication
- Technical Judgment; System-Level Understanding
- Customer, Vendor; Partner Management
- Influence Without Authority
- Process Building; Operational Excellence
- Delivering Under Ambiguity
- Balancing Best Practices with Time-to-Market

Equal employment opportunity: All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law. Assistance will be gladly provided upon request for any applicant with sensory or non-sensory disabilities.
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Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Range is 170,000 to 200,000.