What the role actually isShield AI is hiring a staff technical program manager for V-BAT work in Dallas. The role owns integrated program execution across UAS, autonomy, mission systems, customer delivery, test readiness, and cross-functional engineering plans.
This is not a pure operations role. It sits close to the productized aircraft capability: requirements, interfaces, verification, technical baselines, customer acceptance, and delivery cadence all have to line up.
What you would work onLead execution for complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, and customer-delivery programs
Own integrated plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, risks, decisions, and change control
Coordinate system integration and test across hardware, software, autonomy, systems engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, cybersecurity, and field teams
Build program metrics and dashboards for integration readiness, release performance, risk posture, and requirements verification
What they are asking forSenior technical program, systems engineering, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomy, or UAS experience
Experience leading cross-functional programs that deliver integrated products or customer capabilities
Systems-engineering fluency around requirements, interfaces, verification, validation, test planning, and technical baselines
Ability to communicate technical status, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to engineering leaders, executives, customers, and external stakeholders
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
Why this one is worth a lookV-BAT is a fielded autonomous aircraft platform, so the program work has real hardware, software, test, and customer constraints. For someone who likes product-adjacent robotics work but wants to stay close to integration and delivery, this is a high-signal TPM role.
