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Staff Technical Program Manager (R5791)

Shield AI · Dallas, TX · posted 44 days ago

In short: Staff Technical Program Manager (R5791) at Shield AI in Dallas, TX, posted 44 days ago.

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Dallas, TXlocation

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44 days agoposted

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The job

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Employer	Shield AI
Location	Dallas, Texas
Field	Operations and Management › Program management
Level	not stated
Source category	V-BAT Technical Program Management, V-BAT Division
Posted	2026-09-26 (44 days ago)
Work arrangement	On-site at the location listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

At Shield AI, we are revolutionizing defense technology with AI-powered autonomous systems. As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead the integrated execution of complex autonomy-enabled UAS programs from requirements through deployment. You will combine systems-engineering rigor with program-management discipline and scaled-Agile leadership to align multiple engineering teams, manage technical and delivery risk, and deliver verified capability to customers.

This role is ideal for a technically credible leader with deep experience in system integration, requirements management, verification and test, integrated planning, and cross-functional execution. You will establish the plans, operating cadence, technical visibility, and decision mechanisms that enable teams to deliver high-impact mission capability predictably.

What you'll do:

Lead end-to-end execution of complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, or customer-delivery programs, achieving technical, schedule, cost, quality, and customer objectives.

Own integrated program plans, including scope, milestones, schedules, critical path, resource needs, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and change control.

Partner with technical leads to ensure requirements, interfaces, verification plans, test readiness, technical baselines, and customer acceptance criteria are clear, measurable, and traceable.

Lead cross-functional system integration and test execution across hardware, software, autonomy, systems engineering, test, manufacturing, flight operations, cybersecurity, and field/customer teams.

Drive timely resolution of technical, programmatic, and cross-team issues; facilitate trade studies, risk mitigations, recovery plans, and leadership decisions when needed.

Establish and lead an effective multi-team delivery cadence, including integrated planning, dependency reviews, program execution reviews, system demonstrations, release-readiness reviews, and continuous-improvement activities.

Coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams, releases, and customer commitments; identify and remove systemic blockers that affect integrated capability delivery.

Communicate technical status, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and delivery outlook clearly to engineering leadership, executives, customers, and external stakeholders.

Develop and use program metrics and dashboards to improve execution predictability, integration readiness, requirements-verification status, risk posture, and release performance.

Mentor project engineers and technical leads in integrated planning, systems-engineering execution, risk management, and cross-functional delivery practices.

Required qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related STEM discipline.

Typically 8–12+ years of experience in systems engineering, project engineering, technical program management, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, UAS, or a similarly complex technical environment.

Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical programs involving multiple engineering disciplines and delivering integrated products, capabilities, or customer solutions.

Strong systems-engineering experience, including requirements management, traceability, interface management, system integration, verification and validation, test planning/execution, and configuration or technical-baseline management.

Proven program-management capability, including integrated planning and scheduling, scope management, resource coordination, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and execution reporting.

Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams or technical workstreams toward shared releases, demonstrations, system-level milestones, or customer deliveries.

Strong written, verbal, and executive communication skills, with the ability to explain technical status, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Preferred qualifications:

Active DoD security clearance.

PMP certification, INCOSE certification, SAFe Release Train Engineer certification, or equivalent demonstrated experience in technical program, systems-engineering, or scaled-Agile leadership.

Experience serving as a Technical Program Manager, Release Train Engineer, Integrated Product Team lead, Project Engineer, systems-integration lead, or comparable cross-functional technical leadership role.

Experience facilitating multi-team planning, dependency management, program execution reviews, system demonstrations, release-readiness reviews, and continuous-improvement activities.

Experience with Jira, Confluence, Jira Align, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Jama, Polarion, DOORS, Cameo, or comparable planning, requirements, and systems-engineering tools.

Experience with UAS, autonomy, robotics, AI-enabled systems, mission systems, sensors, payloads, communications/datalinks, SATCOM, navigation, flight test, or fielded defense systems.

Experience supporting DoD, intelligence-community, aviation, maritime, international-defense, or other mission-critical customer programs.

Experience with manufacturing, production readiness, supplier coordination, cybersecurity, airworthiness/clearance-to-fly, configuration management, export compliance, or field deployment.

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Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information. ### Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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The city

The job is in Dallas, TX. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Dallas compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Dallas is #3 by population, #112 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #42 for remote work (#1 = most), #46 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Dallas County, is #8 of 254 counties for average pay ($89,284).

The place in numbers

Dallas has 1,307,930 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 4.3% of the population of Texas. It covers 340 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,850 people per square mile. The median age is 33.4, 6% younger than the state median (33.4 against 35.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,472 a month (rent plus utilities), 5% above the state median ($1,472 against $1,403). Over a year that is 25.0% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $320,700, which is 4.5 times the median household income ($70,518). 42.4% of households own their home, 32% below the state average (42.4% against 62.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area has 4,049,800 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,440 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,440 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (490,190 jobs, median $47,080); transportation and material moving (423,430 jobs, median $44,570); management (379,320 jobs, median $128,140). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.4 times) and management (1.3 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($128,140) and computer and mathematical ($121,440). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Dallas County was 4.2%. 68.6% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Dallas County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 66.6% drive alone, 2.1% use public transit, 2.1% walk, 15.8% work from home. 14.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 17% below the state average (14.1% against 16.9%).

People and education

38.2% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 13% above the state share (38.2% against 33.8%). 23.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 33% above the state share (23.4% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 16.7%, 21% above the state rate (16.7% against 13.8%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (30.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 44°F (6.4°C). About 921 mm (36 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (116 mm) and Jul the driest (55 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Mesquite (11 miles, similar rent); Garland (11 miles, rent 11% higher); Farmers Branch (11 miles, rent 27% higher); Irving (13 miles, rent 10% higher). Rent differences are against Dallas; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Dallas, TX that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
Dallas, TX	0 mi	$1,472	$320,700	$70,518	14.1%	n/a	Jobs
Mesquite, TX	11 mi	$1,513	$245,700	$72,537	26.5%	n/a	—
Garland, TX	11 mi	$1,641	$270,800	$76,320	20.1%	n/a	—
Farmers Branch, TX	11 mi	$1,864	$364,600	$91,186	6.9%	n/a	—
Irving, TX	13 mi	$1,619	$315,600	$81,830	10.2%	n/a	Jobs
Richardson, TX	13 mi	$1,857	$431,400	$98,111	10.8%	n/a	—
Duncanville, TX	13 mi	$1,630	$255,500	$76,457	14.2%	n/a	—
Lancaster, TX	14 mi	$1,704	$246,300	$68,302	19.5%	n/a	—
DeSoto, TX	15 mi	$1,666	$319,400	$82,782	21.9%	n/a	—
Rowlett, TX	15 mi	$1,990	$368,800	$112,081	24.8%	n/a	—
Carrollton, TX	16 mi	$1,735	$381,000	$101,396	9.8%	n/a	Jobs
Sachse, TX	16 mi	$1,798	$406,200	$131,808	21.1%	n/a	—
Grand Prairie, TX	17 mi	$1,629	$295,500	$81,619	17.2%	n/a	—
Coppell, TX	18 mi	$2,022	$560,500	$146,235	9.3%	n/a	Jobs
Plano, TX	18 mi	$1,841	$465,900	$112,253	13.4%	n/a	Jobs
Cedar Hill, TX	18 mi	$1,993	$302,700	$101,909	21.5%	n/a	—
Euless, TX	19 mi	$1,690	$318,800	$82,167	13.2%	n/a	—
Forney, TX	19 mi	$1,828	$346,400	$104,112	29.9%	n/a	—
Grapevine, TX	20 mi	$1,863	$493,100	$111,376	8.3%	n/a	—
Rockwall, TX	21 mi	$1,947	$411,700	$115,580	32.6%	n/a	—

Career paths

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Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
Dallas, TX	0 mi	1,307,930
Fort Worth, TX	34 mi	963,194
Austin, TX	182 mi	979,539
Oklahoma City, OK	190 mi	697,125
Houston, TX	223 mi	2,328,253
San Antonio, TX	253 mi	1,479,835
Denver, CO	660 mi	718,877
Indianapolis, IN	762 mi	885,860
Chicago, IL	799 mi	2,711,226
Phoenix, AZ	887 mi	1,642,323
Jacksonville, FL	904 mi	977,670
Columbus, OH	912 mi	914,802
Charlotte, NC	927 mi	903,844
San Diego, CA	1,181 mi	1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA	1,249 mi	3,857,263
Philadelphia, PA	1,298 mi	1,579,706
New York, NY	1,371 mi	8,483,844
San Jose, CA	1,446 mi	990,138
San Francisco, CA	1,515 mi	830,235
Seattle, WA	1,681 mi	754,195

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Addison, TX	12 mi	74
Arlington, TX	22 mi	73
Allen, TX	23 mi	10
Fort Worth, TX	34 mi	267

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