Staff Technical Program Manager (AI/UAS)

Location: Dallas, Texas; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered autonomous systems and defense technology.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end execution of complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, and customer-delivery programs.
• Own integrated plans covering scope, milestones, schedules, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, decisions, and change control.
• Partner with technical leads on requirements, interfaces, verification plans, test readiness, technical baselines, and customer acceptance criteria.
• Lead system integration and test execution across hardware, software, autonomy, systems engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, cybersecurity, and customer teams.
• Coordinate multiple engineering teams, releases, demonstrations, and customer commitments while removing systemic delivery blockers.
• Communicate technical status, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and delivery outlook to engineering leadership, executives, customers, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, systems engineering, computer science, physics, or a related STEM discipline.
• Typically 8–12+ years of experience in systems engineering, technical program management, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, UAS, or a similarly complex technical environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical programs involving multiple engineering disciplines and delivering integrated products, capabilities, or customer solutions.
• Strong experience with requirements management, traceability, interface management, system integration, verification and validation, test planning and execution, and configuration or technical-baseline management.
• Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams or technical workstreams toward shared releases, demonstrations, system milestones, or customer deliveries.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance; willingness to travel up to 25%.

Nice to have

• Active DoD security clearance and PMP, INCOSE, or SAFe Release Train Engineer certification.
• Experience as a Technical Program Manager, Release Train Engineer, Integrated Product Team lead, Project Engineer, or systems-integration lead.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Jama, Polarion, DOORS, Cameo, or comparable tools.
• Experience with UAS, autonomy, robotics, AI-enabled systems, mission systems, sensors, payloads, communications, SATCOM, navigation, flight test, or fielded defense systems.
• Experience with manufacturing, production readiness, supplier coordination, cybersecurity, airworthiness, configuration management, export compliance, or field deployment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position.
• On-site work in Dallas, Texas.
• Work on AI-powered autonomous defense systems and mission-critical customer programs.