Airborne Communications Program Manager (DoD)

Mount Indie; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Indie seeks a Program Manager to lead DoD programs for airborne platforms, integrating advanced communications and networking technologies. You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, oversee development, testing, and field demonstrations, and ensure warfighter needs drive solution design.

You will coordinate with customers and engineering teams to meet schedule, cost, and technical requirements while guiding strategic growth and portfolio expansion in TACAIR platforms and related systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering field or related engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain strong working relationships with partners, customers, and industry stakeholders to expand our various airborne platform Business Areas
• Deliver innovative software, network, and hardware solutions to enhance network and IP-based communications
• Ensure cost, schedule, and technical requirements are met for all responsible projects
• Work alongside engineering teams to optimize exchange of key metrics and resolve road blocks
• Incorporate real-world operators into our development process to understand needs and requirements from an end-user point of view
• Provide input for strategic growth of the portfolio through project planning and proposals
• Insert focus on fixed wing tactics and C2 integration into our system demonstration and experimentation
• Ensure system development environment and system attributes align with DoD security requirements
• Participate in demonstration planning with customers, engineering teams, and overarching experiment managers
• Execute technical demonstrations
• Oversee critical system integration and field events meet system objectives and customer expectations

Skills

Program management

Team leadership

Strong communication

EVM

MS Project

Jira

Airborne systems

DoD knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Jira

MS Project

Job description

Mount Indie seeks a Program Manager to lead DoD programs for airborne platforms, integrating advanced communications and networking technologies. You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, oversee development, testing, and field demonstrations, and ensure warfighter needs drive solution design.

You will coordinate with customers and engineering teams to meet schedule, cost, and technical requirements while guiding strategic growth and portfolio expansion in TACAIR platforms and related systems.