Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager (TPM) — Aerospace & Precision Strike

Technical Execution | Hardware Development | Integrated Program Delivery

Location Orange County, California

Employment Type Full-time

Department Engineering / Program Management

Reports To CEO

Compensation Salary target 150K to 190K, commensurate with experience, plus equity

Eligibility U.S. citizenship required; must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance

Tiberius Aerospace is a cutting-edge aerospace and defense company delivering advanced, mission-critical technologies for government and private-sector customers. We develop high-performance aerospace systems, secure engineering solutions, and complex hardware built for demanding operational environments.

We are scaling quickly and seek people who operate with ownership, urgency, technical discipline, and sound judgement. Our teams work on real systems with real operational consequences—moving from concept to hardware, test, and deployment with speed and rigor.

Tiberius Aerospace is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM)to lead the execution of complex aerospace and precision-strike hardware programs.

The TPM operates at the intersection of engineering, test, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and program leadership. You will bring structure to complex technical work: defining execution plans, maintaining integrated schedules, managing risks and dependencies, driving accountability, and ensuring the team has the information and decisions needed to deliver.

This is not a status-tracking role. You will be embedded with technical teams, understand the product and its mission, anticipate issues before they become blockers, and help turn ambitious engineering objectives into flight-ready hardware.

• Lead the end‑to‑end planning, execution, and delivery of aerospace and defense hardware programs from concept through development, qualification, production, and field deployment.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans that connect technical scope, milestones, schedules, resources, risks, test activity, production readiness, and customer commitments.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders to define technical execution paths, clarify requirements, identify critical dependencies, and drive decisions.
• Manage the program’s cost, schedule, and technical-performance baseline, ensuring priorities remain aligned with mission needs and company objectives.
• Lead integrated program team meetings and establish clear ownership, action tracking, escalation paths, and decision cadence.
• Translate high‑level product and mission requirements into actionable engineering work streams and measurable deliverables.
• Drive execution across mechanical, structures, propulsion, aerodynamics, electrical, embedded software, flight controls, test, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain functions.
• Coordinate technical development activities from early design trades through prototype builds, qualification, flight test, and production transition.

• Develop and maintain detailed schedules, critical paths, milestone plans, and execution dashboards.
• Identify program risks, technical risks, resource constraints, and cross‑functional dependencies early; establish mitigation plans and drive closure.
• Ensure configuration changes, design decisions, test results, supplier issues, and manufacturing constraints are reflected in program plans.
• Monitor program health using meaningful execution metrics, including milestone performance, test readiness, delivery predictability, issue aging, and risk exposure.
• Escalate issues with clear context, recommended decisions, and an…