# Engineering Program Manager

Description Ghost Robotics builds legged robots for defense, security, and industrial customers operating in environments where failure is not recoverable. Getting a machine like that from concept to fielded product means hardware, firmware, software, verification, manufacturing, and documentation all landing on the same date. That coordination is this job. You will own the execution framework for our product development programs: the integrated schedule, the risk register, the dependency map, and the release readiness plan. You will work alongside Product Owners and Engineering Leads who own the technical decisions, and you will make sure those decisions are visible, sequenced, and funded. This is an execution leadership role. You will not be the technical decision-maker, and you will not manage engineers directly. You will be the person leadership turns to when they need to know whether the program is actually going to make its date. What you'll do Build and maintain the integrated development plan for assigned programs: milestones, critical path, dependencies, and release objectives. Translate product priorities from Product Owners and Engineering Leads into an executable sche

- **Id**: 3048420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ghost-robotics-engineering-program-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Philadelphia, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-22T00:18:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T16:35:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 16
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3523
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Robotics, Security & Surveillance Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 48068
- **Name**: Ghost Robotics
- **Domain**: ghostrobotics.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ghost-robotics>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paylocity

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 16

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-22T01:30:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 71
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.787
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 16
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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