Northwood

Technology

TechnicalProgramManager,Digital

$145–205k ~AI est. Torrance, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Technical Program Manager, Digital at Northwood. Skills: Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering, Delivery risk management. Maintain visibility into engineering delivery risk. Own software development lifecycle”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Risk resolution

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years in Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering experience, Technical engineering leadership experience, Technical understanding of software systems, Technical understanding of distributed infrastructure, Experience with DSP teams, Experience with RF teams, Experience with embedded teams, Experience with real-time systems teams, Track record of building delivery processes, Track record of building tooling

Nice to Have

SDRs experience, Modem systems experience, Satellite communications experience, Wireless experience, Telecom infrastructure experience, Familiarity with DSP concepts, FPGA coordination experience, Embedded Linux coordination experience, High-performance compute coordination experience, Customer-facing roles experience, Program-interface roles experience, Aerospace experience, Defense experience, Mission-critical systems experience, ITAR familiarity, Classified systems familiarity, Regulated operational environments familiarity

What You'll Do.

Maintain visibility into engineering delivery risk

Own software development lifecycle

Build execution plans

Maintain execution plans

Build dependency maps

Maintain dependency maps

Build delivery schedules

Maintain delivery schedules

Drive clarity on priorities

Drive clarity on ownership

Drive clarity on technical debt

Drive clarity on operational readiness

Build processes for coordination

Build tooling for coordination

Build visibility for coordination

Identify integration risks

Drive resolution of integration risks

Escalate to engineering leadership

Coordinate testing across environments

Partner with mission management

Participate in customer meetings

Translate engineering state

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team risk resolution; Customer meetings; Engineering leadership partnership

Communication Scope

Customer meetings translation

Process & Methodology

Execution plans, Dependency maps, Delivery schedules

Full Job Description

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail. Role Northwood is building a global network of satellite ground stations, and the Digital org spans backend, frontend, DSP, FPGA, embedded, and infrastructure. As these products run in parallel against hard customer commitments. This role owns the horizontal layer: real-time visibility into engineering delivery risk across the Digital portfolio, and the processes and tooling that let the org execute coherently. This is not a role that owns technical direction or schedules IC time; that authority stays with engineers and functional leads. It is the role that holds the integrated delivery picture, surfaces and resolves cross-team risk before it becomes a missed pass, and gives mission management and customers a straight answer on where things stand. Responsibilities - Maintain real-time visibility into engineering delivery risk across Digital products: modem pipelines, beamforming, telemetry, scheduling, and ground-station software - Own the software development lifecycle across these products: build and maintain execution plans, dependency maps, and delivery schedules, and drive clarity on priorities, ownership, technical debt, and operational readiness - Build the processes, tooling, and visibility that let teams coordinate without relying on proximity and ad-hoc alignment - Identify and drive resolution of integration risks across the hardware/software and cross-domain boundaries; escalate to engineering leadership when team-level resolution fails - Coordinate testing and validation across simulation, staging, lab, and deployed environments - Partner with mission management and participate directly in customer meeting

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