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.

• 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 work streams
• 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…