Technical Project Manager; Senior to level

Description

WORK LOCATION:

Ann Arbor MI, Chantilly VA or Remote US (Eastern Time Zone)

FLSA STATUS:
Exempt

SALARY RANGE:
The anticipated salary range for this role is $127,000 to $165,000 annually. This range reflects a good faith estimate based on the targeted level for the role and typical compensation benchmarks across U.S. locations. Actual compensation may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographical location, and internal alignment.

The Software Project Engineer provides program-level technical coordination across multiple engineering teams and major subsystems. This roleleadsthe integration strategy for complex engineering efforts, ensuring all disciplines (hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing) remain synchronized toward key program milestones and deliverables.

The Software Project Engineer PE drives the sequencing, communication structure, andintegrationreadinessrequiredfor multi-phase product development. Theyidentifycross-teamimpactsearly,maintainforward-looking plans, and ensure engineering execution is organized, predictable, and aligned with the program’s technicalobjectives. This role also mentors the broader Project Engineering team and acts as a technical counterpart to program leadership.

The following job functions are a basic requirement but are not limited to and may be assigned other duties:

• Lead technical integration across multiple subsystems or entire vehicle-level engineering efforts.
• Develop andmaintainthe engineering execution plan, including multi-workstream schedules, integration checkpoints, build / release and milestonereadiness tracking criteria.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment by running structured coordination cadences across hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing.
• Own technical readiness for engineering reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring all disciplines meet entry/exit criteria.
• Serve as the primary engineering integration counterpart to Program Management, providing visibility into progress, constraints,required decisions and software delivery risk across integration, regression, configuration and schedule.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables that span multiple IPTs or disciplines, ensuring consistency and preventing disconnects.
• Influence requirement interpretation, design impacts, and verification planning alongside systems engineering.
• Plan and coordinate system-level integration events, prototype builds, lab testing,flight test preparation and production release activities.
• Identify roadblocks and bottlenecks to project execution and determine a course of action to eliminate or avoid them.
• Develop and implement recovery plans for off-schedule and unanticipated events
• Drivestructured communication practices across all teams, ensuring predictable updates, clear next steps, and documentation continuity for software releases and configuration / change documentation.

The following are a non-exhaustive list of qualifications for the position:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Technical Management, Systems Engineering ora related analytical field required.
• 7–10 years of experience in in delivering software initiatives through project engineering, technical program coordination or engineering operations.
• Demonstrated capability leading complex, multi-disciplinary engineering efforts, major product subsystems or software programs with significant integration scope.
• Aerospace, UAS, robotics, or high-integration hardware / software industry experience
• Deep understanding of software and system engineering life cycles, design reviews and verification processes.
• Ability to interpretsystem architectures, interface definitions, and technical requirements across domains.
• Expertise building andmaintainingmulti-layered schedules and integration sequences.
• Strongcompetencyleadingcross-functional meetings and producing structured technical documentation.
• Experience coordinating software integration activities,lab integration, system-level testing or flight test readiness.
• High-level communication and stakeholder management skills, especially…