Technical Program Manager Security Clearance

Location:

Reston, VA Clearance Requirement:
Secret; TS/SCI preferred Salary Range : $125,000-$150000+

Data Machines is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead advanced programs involving artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and modeling and simulation. The successful candidate will own program execution from planning through delivery, aligning scope, schedule, budget, staffing, risks, technical milestones, and customer expectations.

This role requires strong program-management discipline and technical understanding to work credibly with engineers, researchers, architects, and mission stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager must be able to understand system concepts and engineering tradeoffs, recognize technical and integration risks, ask informed questions, and translate technical progress into clear decisions and commitments.

The ideal candidate can turn complex or evolving mission needs into executable plans, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, maintain accountability across internal and external partners, and ensure that research and development efforts produce useful, testable, and operationally relevant results.

Help lead technical programs involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, high performance computing, modeling and simulation, and advanced software development.

• Translate customer missions, operational needs, and contractual requirements into technical objectives, development roadmaps, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of engineers, researchers, data scientists, operations researchers, infrastructure specialists, cybersecurity personnel, mission experts, subcontractors, and external partners.
• Demonstrate technical depth to evaluate proposed approaches, understand architecture and engineering tradeoffs, challenge assumptions constructively, and identify integration risks early.
• Oversee AI-enabled capabilities, GPU and distributed-computing environments, cloud infrastructure, data-intensive systems, and constructive, virtual, discrete-event, or campaign-level simulations.
• Establish program execution rhythms through planning sessions, technical interchange meetings, design and risk reviews, demonstrations, milestone reviews, and customer reporting.
• Manage scope, cost, schedule, technical performance, staffing, dependencies, risks, opportunities, contractual deliverables, and government-furnished resources.
• Coordinate integration across software, data, models, simulations, infrastructure, networks, sensors, and external mission systems.
• Ensure capabilities are developed and evaluated through disciplined engineering, verification and validation, benchmarking, test and evaluation, uncertainty characterization, and appropriate AI-assurance methods.
• Work with cybersecurity and Dev Sec Ops  personnel to incorporate security, compliance, software assurance, and authorization requirements into development and deployment environments.
• Communicate complex technical information clearly through program plans, technical briefings, status reports, decision materials, white papers, proposals, and customer-facing reviews.
• Support capture and proposal activities, contribute to reusable Data Machines capabilities and intellectual property, and mentor technical staff and emerging program leaders.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Physics, or another relevant technical discipline, with eight or more years of relevant experience including leadership of multidisciplinary technical programs.
• Demonstrated success managing…