Technical Program Manager
Merlin LabsAutonomous Flight company
Boston, United StatesSenior
GV
First Round Capital
Baillie Gifford
Snowpoint Ventures
Inflection Point Acquisition IV
Inflection Point Asset Management
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Manage complex aerospace and defense programs, driving technical execution and cross-functional alignment.
- •Merlin Labs is an aerospace startup building a non-human pilot for reduced crew and uncrewed flight.
- •As a Technical Program Manager, you will be instrumental in bringing their autonomy technology to life, driving execution across ambitious programs.
- •Key Responsibilities Own delivery of complex, cross-functional aerospace and defense programs.
- •Drive technical execution rhythms across engineering, systems integration, and business stakeholders.
- •Serve as the central point of coordination for internal teams, subcontractors, and government customers.
- •Requirements Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field. 5+ years of experience managing complex technical programs, ideally within aerospace, defense, or autonomy.
- •Demonstrated success delivering integrated hardware-software systems.
Required skills
Program ManagementProject ManagementAgileRisk Management
Domain expertise
aerospacedefense
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptJavaC++C#GoRustSQLBashReactVue.jsAngularNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETPandasNumPySparkAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflakeDatabricks