Northwood
Technology
TechnicalProgramManager,Digital
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“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.
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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