# Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Mission Autonomy

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager to join our Weapons Domain team, integrating Shield AI’s Hivemind Autonomy stack onto Launched Effects and Deep Strike platforms. Your role will include starting programs from the ground up and guiding them through production and into operational employment. This role requires a self-starter who can integrate quickly with a fast-moving, highly competent team. You will drive alignment across software development and integration activities with domestic and international customers while remaining synchronized with Business Development colleagues. This role requires close coordination with colleagues across Shield AI’s international teams, including offices in Europe and Asia, and a motivated, cross-functional leadership approach. The ideal candidate has a combination of government and commercial program management experience, with strong, established fundamentals in coordinating complex, first-of-a-kind integration efforts. You will be responsible for driving cost, schedule, integration readiness, risk management, and successful operational outcomes while pushing the boundaries of mission autonomy. We are lookin

- **Id**: 3989157
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-senior-staff-technical-program-manager-mission-autonomy>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:28:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:44:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6166
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 50
- **Name**: Shield AI
- **Domain**: shield.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 92
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.859
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 184320
- **Max**: 276480
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 276480

## Technologies

- **MAVLink** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:44:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T03:50:19Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 276480
- **Is top pay**: yes

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