# Senior Quality Technical Program Manager (R4957)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000-180,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a high-impact quality engineering team driving reliability, validation, and execution excellence across next-generation autonomous systems. This role partners across engineering, test, manufacturing, and program leadership to ensure quality objectives are embedded throughout the product lifecycle.

You will lead cross-functional quality initiatives by managing validation efforts, driving issue resolution, tracking technical risk, and improving engineering execution through data-driven program management.

We are seeking a Quality Engineering Technical Program Manager (TPM) with experience leading complex hardware or aerospace quality programs, including validation planning, root cause analysis, reliability tracking, and cross-functional execution.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading cross-functional quality engineering programs spanning validation, integration, manufacturing readiness, and field reliability

- Driving issue triage, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and closure tracking for system-level failures

- Developing and managing quality plans, schedules, metrics, and risk tracking across engineering teams

- Coordinating verification and validation activities across hardware, software, manufacturing, and test organizations

- Partnering with engineering leadership to improve release readiness, defect reduction, and development processes

- Analyzing quality and reliability trends to identify systemic issues and improve product performance

Required qualifications include:

- 3+ years of experience in technical program management, quality engineering, systems engineering, or validation leadership in complex hardware or aerospace environments

- Strong understanding of root cause analysis, corrective actions, and reliability tracking

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs across engineering, manufacturing, and test organizations

- Experience managing technical risk, program dependencies, and execution tradeoffs in fast-paced development programs

- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to drive alignment and accountability across teams

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience supporting aerospace, defense, robotics, or autonomous systems programs

- Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, or regulated engineering environments

- Experience with reliability testing, systems integration, or manufacturing quality

- Experience using data and automation tools such as Python, SQL, Jira, Power BI, or Tableau to improve quality visibility and execution

## Skills

### Required
- technical program management
- quality engineering
- systems engineering
- validation leadership
- root cause analysis
- corrective actions
- reliability tracking
- cross-functional program management
- technical risk management
- program dependencies
- execution tradeoffs
- analytical skills
- communication skills
- organizational skills

### Nice to have
- aerospace systems
- defense systems
- robotics
- autonomous systems
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- regulated engineering environments
- reliability testing
- systems integration
- manufacturing quality
- data and automation tools
- Python
- SQL
- Jira
- Power BI
- Tableau

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