Flight Software TPM — Orchestrate Satellite Programs

Telemetry Today LLC; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space in Torrance is seeking a Technical Program Manager embedded with our Flight and Ground Software teams to own the schedule for multiple satellite programs. You’ll coordinate software milestones, align with hardware and test plans, and surface risks before they become delays.

This role is onsite at our Torrance office. You’ll work with software engineering leads to maintain the development calendar, manage dependencies, and keep stakeholders informed with concise, honest status updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of technical program or project management experience with software engineering teams, ideally on embedded, flight, or other high-reliability software.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain detailed schedules, track dependencies, and keep a software team on track against firm external milestones (e.g., integration, test, launch dates).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to give leadership a clear, honest schedule picture without diluting or overstating risk.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the software team's development schedule, including sprint/release plans, integration milestones, and dependencies on hardware, test, and other software subsystems.
• Track day-to-day progress against the schedule, identify slips early, and drive resolution of blockers with the responsible engineers and leads.
• Coordinate flight & ground software milestones with systems, avionics, AI&T, and mission operations to keep the broader program on schedule.
• Maintain the risk register for flight software: flag emerging risks, drive mitigation plans, and know when and how to escalation schedule or scope decision to leadership.
• Run and facilitate recurring flight software program reviews and planning sessions - keeping them focused, actionable, and tied to schedule commitments.
• Translate engineering status into clear, concise updates for engineering leadership, program management, and customers - tailoring the level of detail to the audience.
• Partner with software leads to right-size process (ticketing, sprint cadence, release planning) so schedule tracking scales with the team without slowing engineers down.
• Support resource and capacity planning for the flight software team, helping forecast staffing needs against upcoming program milestones.
• Continuously improve how the team plans and tracks work as K2 scales production across multiple concurrent satellite programs.

Skills

Schedule management

Stakeholder communication

Technical fluency

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based workflows

CI/CD

Job description

K2 Space in Torrance is seeking a Technical Program Manager embedded with our Flight and Ground Software teams to own the schedule for multiple satellite programs. You’ll coordinate software milestones, align with hardware and test plans, and surface risks before they become delays.

This role is onsite at our Torrance office. You’ll work with software engineering leads to maintain the development calendar, manage dependencies, and keep stakeholders informed with concise, honest status updates.