Technical Program Manager, Digital Test & Evaluation

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $180k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔧 Technical Program Manager

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Advanced Automation Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

💼 Consulting

Defense • Aerospace • Consulting

Advanced Automation Corporation is a team of specialized engineers and multi-disciplined experts focused on Systems Engineering and its applications in defense and aerospace. They provide services such as research and development, test and evaluation, and training programs tailored for government and corporate clients. AAC combines advanced economic and financial modeling with simulation and modeling technologies to navigate complex challenges and formulate adaptive strategies. Their expertise extends to cultural intelligence and conflict resolution, ensuring their clients, particularly in the defense sector, can operate effectively in diverse environments.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage Digital T&E prototype efforts from problem definition and market research through technical diligence, pilot execution, user evaluation, and transition. • Translate military T&E workflows, capability claims, operational needs, and program decisions into software requirements, user stories, integration requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable pilot outcomes. • Design and evaluate end-to-end T&E workflows spanning requirements, mission and systems engineering, modeling and simulation, test planning, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting, and decision support. • Define Measures of Performance, Measures of Effectiveness, test objectives, data requirements, evidence thresholds, and appropriate modeling, simulation, laboratory, cyber, and physical-range testing. • Serve as a technical integrator across Digital T&E tool categories, including MBSE, DevSecOps/CI/CD, modeling and simulation, test planning, risk management, test execution, monitoring, analysis, visualization, reporting, and data governance. • Develop and validate digital-thread concepts connecting authoritative data and artifacts across engineering, test, and assessment tools. • Coordinate commercial software integration into defense RDT&E infrastructure, including cloud, edge environments, networks, classified/unclassified enclaves, cybersecurity, identity and access management, data protection, interoperability, and accreditation. • Identify and resolve technical barriers involving APIs, data schemas, metadata, containerization, software deployment, network connectivity, data federation, tool interoperability, and legacy systems. • Work with Government test organizations, program offices, users, data owners, security teams, software vendors, and infrastructure providers to establish pilot architectures and execution plans. • Conduct technical due diligence of commercial software and emerging T&E technologies. • Create and lead Government-commercial teams to prototype, integrate, test, and evaluate Digital T&E solutions. • Develop executive-level briefs, test concepts, pilot plans, integration roadmaps, decision memos, and technical documentation. • Engage stakeholders to curate problems and maintain awareness of developments in digital engineering, test automation, AI-enabled T&E, data engineering, simulation, digital twins, software assurance, and test-management technologies. • Support demonstrations and limited-user tests; define success criteria and collect quantitative and qualitative evidence. • Define reusable T&E templates, reference workflows, data standards, and interoperability patterns. • Identify dependencies and approval gates, including cybersecurity/RMF, cloud and network hosting, data classification, software deployment, spectrum, and range constraints. • Bridge test practitioners and software teams while preserving rigor, traceability, configuration control, and evidentiary standards. • Operate under Test & Evaluation / Strategic Integration leadership with independent judgment and close coordination with Government and commercial stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Five or more years of directly relevant experience in defense Test & Evaluation, systems engineering, digital engineering, software-intensive acquisition, or a closely related national-security technical field. • Working knowledge of the defense T&E lifecycle, including test strategy, developmental and operational testing, test planning and execution, MOPs/MOEs, risk management, data collection, analysis, reporting, and the role of modeling and simulation versus physical test. • Demonstrated familiarity with one or more Digital T&E / digital engineering disciplines such as MBSE, mission engineering, modeling and simulation, digital twins, test management, DevSecOps/CI/CD, automated test, data orchestration, data analytics/visualization, AI/ML, or digital-thread architectures. • Demonstrated ability to understand and manage software integration in defense environments, including APIs and data exchange, cloud and edge deployment, containerized applications, government networks, cybersecurity/RMF and ATO processes, identity/access controls, CUI and classified-data handling, and interoperability with legacy systems. • Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to translate operational and test-user problems into technically actionable software requirements and pilot architectures. • Experience working across Government program offices, test organizations, engineering organizations, operational users, and commercial technology companies. • Strong engineering literacy in a relevant discipline such as Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field. • Demonstrated ability to lead diverse, cross-functional project teams and manage multiple technical workstreams with limited supervision. • Outstanding executive writing, briefing, stakeholder-management, and technical communication skills. • U.S. Citizenship required. • Secret security clearance required; ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI eligibility preferred. • Travel required (up to 30%).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan - 401k with matching contributions • Employer Paid Life Insurance (Basic) • FSA (Flexible Spending Account) • Generous Paid Time Off • Paid Holidays • Sick Leave • AFLAC (Supplementary Insurance) • Tuition Reimbursement Program