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Senior Software Product Manager, Strategic Defense

Washington, DC (DC-01)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Shape and deliver features for next-generation autonomous air and missile defense systems, translating warfighter needs into actionable roadmaps and specifications.

Role type

Senior Software Product Manager (Autonomy & Defense Systems)

Builds

Scalable software solutions for integrated air and missile defense, including autonomy capabilities, human-machine interfaces, and backend services.

Domain

Defense, National Security, Autonomous Systems, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Product roadmap ownership, autonomy and controls concepts (state estimation, planning, closed-loop control), software execution management, stakeholder communication, prototyping, technical project decomposition, distributed systems understanding

Preferred skills

Autonomous systems shipping experience, mathematical optimization, AI safety/assurance, operations research, defense/aerospace domain familiarity, test design for complex systems

Technologies

AI/ML, distributed systems, autonomy software stacks

Responsibilities

Own product roadmap for autonomy capabilities; define autonomy behavior and human-machine interfaces; support software execution by sequencing workstreams and managing dependencies; communicate roadmaps and status to stakeholders; interview defense operators to propagate user needs; partner with test engineers to devise rigorous testing scenarios

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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