Senior Technical Program Manager, Radar Systems

Location: Hybrid in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

Salary: $165,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops AI-enabled radar sensing systems combining advanced radar, edge computing, AI, and cloud software for situational awareness.

What you will do

• Own the unified hardware execution plan across Radar Systems and RF development teams.
• Coordinate product requirements, design milestones, prototypes, builds, qualification, production readiness, software enablement, and customer-program commitments.
• Lead integrated planning, dependency, risk, milestone, and readiness reviews across Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, and customer programs.
• Validate resource commitments, schedule assumptions, dependencies, and major risks; communicate status and escalate execution issues.
• Lead cross-functional phase-gate reviews from feasibility through production, coordinating deliverables, signoffs, decisions, and open actions.
• Coordinate ISO, quality-system, certification, and compliance audits, including audit readiness and closure of findings.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience managing complex hardware development programs, technical programs, or cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Strong understanding of hardware product-development lifecycles and experience with radar/RF, electrical, mechanical, embedded systems, FPGA, systems integration, manufacturing, or related teams.
• Experience leading hardware phase-gate reviews and coordinating requirements, design, qualification, and production-readiness reviews.
• Experience managing supplier, component, long-lead material, prototype, test-equipment, and manufacturing dependencies.
• Strong experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, PLM systems, or similar tools.
• Ability to lead through influence without direct authority, challenge unrealistic timelines, identify risks, and align senior technical and business stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a matrixed organization alongside highly technical radar, AI, edge-computing, and software teams.
• Focus on creating execution structure without owning technical architecture, engineering standards, personnel management, or technical decisions.
• Help move advanced radar hardware from technical development to production and deployment across multiple products and customer programs.