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Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.\nWe are seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, and is responsible for translating an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.\nResponsibilities could span roadmap and release planning, dependency management across model providers and third-party components, and coordination of accreditation and deployment timelines for a range of implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager will maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.\nRequired Experience:\n10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.\nExperience owning technical delivery from concept through production release, including scoping, sequencing, and driving execution across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority.\nTechnical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level. Hands-on engineering background preferred.\nExperience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.\nExperience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.\nExperience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.\nDemonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.\nRelevant Skills:\nProgram Execution\nRoadmap development, release planning, and cadence management, actual/planned program financials\nCross-team dependency mapping and critical path management\nRisk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation\nAgile, Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban at team and program level\nProgram metrics and reporting, including Release Health, and Progress Briefs\nTechnical Program Manager - Job Description:\nTechnical Fluency\nSoftware development lifecycle and DevSecOps pipelines\nCI/CD, build integrity, and release engineering\nCloud and on-premises infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes\nAPI and integration planning across systems and vendors\nVulnerability management workflows and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA)\nAI/LLM system delivery, including evaluation frameworks, model orchestration, and benchmarking\nPreferred Qualifications:\nPrior experience supporting vulnerability research, offensive security, or cyber operations programs\nExperience transitioning research or prototype capability into a sustained product\nActive security clearance\nCertifications such as PMP,\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nSeptember 9, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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