# Technical Program Manager (Homeland Layered Defense), Public Sector

**Company**: Scale
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,400-$249,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Scale's public sector business provides American commercial technology and innovation to protect the homeland. As a Technical Program Manager, you will own relationships critical to the portfolio of clients charged with a layered defense for the United States. You will manage customer relationships and partners, and partner with the engineering team to solve Scale's hardest problems, delivering cutting-edge agentic AI to orchestrate portfolio management for defense of the homeland.

Responsibilities:

- Own technical execution for one or more national security mission areas from initial requirement through deployment and formal evaluation

- Translate operational workflows into detailed Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), Engineering Requirements Documents (ERDs), and executable engineering work

- Work alongside engineers during cycle planning to define scope, sequencing, architecture constraints, dependencies, and milestones

- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability from customer objective to software build, test event, and formal deliverable

- Drive Jira/GitLab execution and provide accurate inputs into integrated master schedules and program-level planning

- Understand and manage data availability, system architecture, integration dependencies, and technical constraints across high-side networks

- Identify technical blockers early, own their resolution, and immediately escalate critical risks when required

- Partner with subcontractors and external engineering teams where applicable, defining interfaces, deliverables, handoffs, and accountability

- Communicate technical progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to both engineering teams and senior customer stakeholders

Requirements:

- Active TS/SCI clearance

- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, product management, technical consulting, or a related technical delivery role

- Strong technical literacy across software architecture, APIs, data systems, system integration, and AI/ML-enabled products

- Ability to write detailed technical and product requirements that engineering teams can directly execute against

- Experience driving complex technical programs across multiple engineering and stakeholder groups

- Strong understanding of program management fundamentals, including requirements traceability, dependencies, risks, schedules, and deliverables

- Ability to reason about data availability and software integration constraints in secure or highly regulated environments

- Comfort working extensively inside secure facilities and air-gapped government systems

- Willingness to travel 25–50% for onsite engagements, integration work, user testing, briefings, and formal evaluation events

Nice to have:

- A technical degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, or a related field

- Proficiency in Python, SQL, or another programming language

- Prior experience as a software engineer, systems engineer, solutions architect, or technical product manager

- Experience building or deploying AI/ML and agentic systems on classified networks

Compensation: The base salary range for this full-time position in Washington DC is: $166,400-$249,000 USD

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement benefits

- A learning and development stipend

- Generous PTO

- Commuter stipend (may be eligible)

## Skills

### Required
- technical program management
- software engineering
- systems engineering
- product management
- technical consulting
- AI/ML
- Jira
- GitLab

### Nice to have
- Python
- SQL
- computer science
- engineering
- mathematics
- physics
- data science

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