Technical Program Manager

🕒 July 6

⚓ Rhode Island – Remote

⚓ Rhode Island – Remote

💵 $150k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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HavocAI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2024-09

Logistics • Manufacturing • Defense

HavocAI is a developer of collaborative autonomy for maritime operations, offering a modular software and vehicle stack that enables fleets of autonomous maritime systems to perform contested logistics, sensor fusion and tracking, domain awareness, and escort-and-engage missions. Their product suite includes onboard autonomy (HAVOC OS), scalable communications (HAVOC CLOUD), and a handheld operator interface (HAVOC CONTROL), marketed as a single solution for theater-scaled security and rapid deployment. HavocAI emphasizes real-time, team-led autonomous solutions that run across diverse environments and supports both hardware (autonomous vessels) and software deployment.

📋 Description

• Own execution for robotics, autonomy, software, and defense-related engineering programs • Drive planning, milestones, schedules, risks, dependencies, and cross-functional delivery • Translate customer needs, contract requirements, and mission objectives into clear technical plans • Coordinate across software, autonomy, hardware, manufacturing, field operations, product, and customer-facing teams • Identify risks early and work with engineering and company leadership to resolve them • Partner with engineering leads to define requirements, interfaces, integration plans, test plans, and release criteria • Coordinate integration across software, hardware, autonomy, sensing, communications, and platform systems • Plan and support system testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, field testing, demonstrations, and operational evaluations • Ensure teams are prepared with test objectives, success criteria, readiness reviews, data collection plans, and post-test analysis workflows • Track field findings, failure modes, corrective actions, and engineering closure • Support execution of government, defense, and dual-use technology programs • Interface with defense, government, and commercial stakeholders as needed • Support proposal planning, customer briefings, program reviews, deliverables, and execution reporting • Communicate program status, risks, milestones, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly • Establish effective planning, documentation, reporting, escalation, and decision-making cadences • Help engineering teams move quickly while maintaining technical rigor, accountability, and execution discipline

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field • 5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program leadership, systems engineering, robotics, defense technology, autonomy, software, or related fields • Experience managing complex technical programs with cross-functional engineering teams • Technical background in robotics, software systems, autonomy, hardware/software integration, defense systems, or fielded technology products • Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts across software, hardware, autonomy, sensors, communications, testing, and operations • Experience leading schedules, milestones, risk management, integration planning, test readiness, and delivery execution • Experience working with engineering teams building real-world systems, not just software-only products • Strong written and verbal communication skills • High ownership, strong judgment, and ability to operate in fast-moving environments • Ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and keep teams aligned around execution priorities • Passion for mission-critical robotics, autonomy, and defense technology • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families • Life Insurance (Employer Paid) • Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching) • Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum • Equity Package • Work / Home Office Stipend • Global Entry • 16 Week Paid Parental Leave • Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend