Technical Program Manager

Who We're Looking for:

Individuals who are interested, and ideally experienced, in some of the areas and topics we are passionate about. All skill levels and backgrounds are welcome. We have an amazing team of engineers from a variety of backgrounds who love to share their collective knowledge and experiences. We've had Electrical Engineers who started as interns in Production and Manufacturing, Software Engineers we found on Github, and Mechanical Engineers who are now Technical Program Managers. We're about growth and providing opportunities for you as you move through you career.

What you'll be doing:

As a Technical Lead, you will be collaborating and managing an energetic and motivated, multi-disciplinary team to develop reliable robotic and automation systems for a wide range of real-world commercial products and R&D applications. You will serve as interpreter of many languages: translating technical details to customers and expressing the customers' needs to your technical team. You will provide the technical guidance needed to move a project from the concept phase, through prototype development, and into production.

This requires a unique skill set involving systems engineering, risk and requirements management, in coordination with customer facing program management skills. The Technical Lead has the responsibility to move from planning and management to hands-on technical development. You will oversee the entire program and uncover and mitigate the obstacles needed to achieve your project's goal. You must proactively search for potential technical, logistical and communication issues before they arise and possess an arsenal of proven methodologies for mitigating each in a time-effective manner, especially with regard to supply chain issues and order fulfillment.

What your day to day is:

• Effectively manage 4 to 6 electrical, mechanical, and software engineers in accomplishing technical, schedule and budgetary goals
• Coordinate and collaborate with other internal departments such as purchasing, manufacturing, and quality
• Achieve organizational alignment with the customer's needs and adapt the project management style appropriately by guiding your team through technical trades and decisions based on performance impacts, technical risks, and cost implications
• Create program plans that are viable and executable by dealing with multiple requirements (technical, schedule, staffing, budgetary, etc.) from a variety of sources (customer, business, team, etc.)

What you'll have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering
• Be a builder/maker that has excelled in a technical discipline, and is now looking to lead larger teams through the challenges of product development in the nascent world of robotics and autonomy
• Leadership skills and experience with a strong sense of personal accountability and initiative who thrives in an independent environment where they are expected to be the decision making authority
• Technical skills relevant enough to the CRL product mix to anticipate risks, think critically about the technical path the team is on, and challenge and redirect as necessary
• Experience defining/refining product requirements based on high level customer needs or operational concepts
• Experience with the full product lifecycle (research, development, launch, manufacturing, and sustainment) in an organization whose business model is driven by the recurring sales of products
• Exceptional written and presentation skills required to communicate to customers and team-mates, as well as bid for and negotiate contracts

How you'll stand out:

• 5+ years experience as a technical individual contributor
• 2+ years experience in a technical project management role
• Experience managing contractual agreements such as non-disclosure agreements, intellectual property, statements of work, and quotes for both non-recurring engineering and recurring product pricing.
• Understanding of different and overlapping regulations and legal requirements
• Experience in defense-related government contracting
• System level requirements development, decomposition and validation
• Risk management including risk identification, analysis, and development of a risk response strategy
• Knowledge of the procurement process for technical engineering efforts from R&D to production, this may encompass custom and COTS products
• Experience with reliability testing and failure analysis: HALT, HASS, MTBF Analysis
• System test plan and test report development and test execution including: FAT, FQT, ESS which may include Random Vibration, Sine Vibration, and EMI/EMC testing