# Staff Technical Program Manager (R5791)

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. Par

- **Id**: 1321382
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-staff-technical-program-manager-r5791>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dallas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-26T20:43:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T06:35:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5455
- **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**: 97
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.856
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Outlook** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: yes
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: yes
- **Confluence** — Optional: yes
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Project** — Optional: yes
- **Smartsheet** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T21:41:58Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-19T00:04:52Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-19T03:09:01Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-22T16:07:18Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-22T20:04:14Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-24T09:17:44Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-24T13:28:26Z

## 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**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: no

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