Principal TPM, Space Network Software

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 198,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

401(k) with match

Education Support

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for the TeraWave Network Software organization to lead the end-to-end software stack for the constellation. You will own the integrated roadmap and drive release readiness across software, silicon, hardware, and operations teams.

The role is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA, with a focus on coordinating multi-team programs from planning through deployment in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• 10 or more years of technical program management or equivalent program leadership experience working with software engineering organizations.
• Experience leading complex, multi-team software programs from planning through integration, release, and operational deployment.
• Experience developing and managing integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths.
• Experience coordinating software delivery with hardware, silicon, embedded systems, or other tightly coupled engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the integrated roadmap and execution plan across the SDN, PoP, network platform, and wireless MAC software teams.
• Establish, run, and continuously improve the sprint planning and execution mechanisms used across the Network Software organization, including milestone reviews, dependency management, risk tracking, and delivery reporting.
• Develop and maintain a six-month rolling roadmap that translates system architecture, product priorities, and constellation milestones into sequenced software deliverables.
• Coordinate technical deliverables, interfaces, integration dependencies, and readiness criteria across software, silicon, hardware, systems engineering, test, and operational teams.
• Identify critical-path items and systemic program risks, establish mitigation plans, and drive decisions or escalations to closure.
• Lead cross-functional planning for major integration, test, deployment, and operational-readiness milestones.
• Define and track program metrics that provide clear insight into delivery health, dependency status, schedule confidence, and organizational risk.
• Communicate program status, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended actions to engineering leadership and senior stakeholders.

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager for the TeraWave Network Software organization to lead the end-to-end software stack for the constellation. You will own the integrated roadmap and drive release readiness across software, silicon, hardware, and operations teams.

The role is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA, with a focus on coordinating multi-team programs from planning through deployment in a fast-paced aerospace environment.