Staff TPM: V-BAT UAS & Autonomy Delivery Lead

Shield

Dallas (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a staff technical program manager in Dallas to own execution across UAS, autonomy, mission systems, and customer delivery. The role connects requirements, interfaces, verification, technical baselines, and delivery cadence with productized aircraft capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage integrated plans, and build dashboards to track readiness, risks, and release performance, collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, and

Qualifications

Senior technical program, systems engineering, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, or UAS experience.
Experience leading cross-functional programs that deliver integrated products or customer capabilities.
Ability to communicate technical status, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to engineering leaders and executives.

Responsibilities

Lead execution for complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, and customer-delivery programs.
Own integrated plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, risks, decisions, and change control.
Coordinate system integration and test across hardware, software, autonomy, systems engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, cybersecurity, and field teams.
Build program metrics and dashboards for integration readiness, release performance, risk posture, and requirements verification.