Product Manager - Digital Proving Grounds
About The Position
The Product Manager for Digital Proving Grounds (DPGs) owns product strategy, roadmap, and requirements for DPGs and Axion Sim. DPGs provide the Department of War with a vendor-neutral environment to test autonomous systems from multiple companies against a mission, spanning software-in-the-loop simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, live-virtual-constructive testing, and live exercises. The role will help turn technologies already used in programs into a repeatable product that program offices, test organizations, and mission engineers can adopt and use without Applied Intuition engineers supporting each event. This is an individual-contributor role and a product peer to the Axion Sim engineering lead. The Product Manager drives outcomes by influencing engineering, design, business development, and delivery. Applied Intuition expects full-time employees to work primarily from an office five days per week, with occasional flexibility for remote work. The role involves approximately 25% travel to customer sites, test ranges, and events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including end-to-end ownership of a simulation, test, or engineering platform used by technical teams.
- Deep technical fluency in simulation, including fidelity, sensor models, determinism, distributed simulation at scale, and hardware-in-the-loop; able to assess when simulation results are trustworthy.
- Strong customer research skills, including learning new domains by interviewing users and observing their work, including in regulated, cleared, or field environments, and translating findings into a prioritized roadmap.
- Track record of transforming custom, per-customer technical product deployments into a repeatable product that customers adopt and renew.
- Ability to own a whole product as an individual contributor and drive cross-functional outcomes through influence rather than direct reports.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with engineers and senior government and industry leaders.
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must hold or be eligible for a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with modeling and simulation standards and government tools such as DIS, HLA, AFSIM, NGTS, or co-simulation frameworks.
- Experience planning or running live-virtual-constructive, range, or large-scale test events.
- Experience with multi-agent or collaborative autonomy, swarms, or communications modeling.
- Familiarity with Department of Defense test and evaluation, mission engineering, or acquisition processes.
- An active U.S. Secret or Top Secret clearance.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Digital Proving Grounds and Axion Sim, determining what should become repeatable product and what remains program-specific.
- Conduct customer discovery with program offices, test and evaluation organizations, mission engineers, and autonomy vendors to understand buyers, needs, and adoption drivers; translate findings into offers with business development and capture teams.
- Define the workflow from mission and concept of operations through scenarios, software-in-the-loop testing, hardware-in-the-loop checkout, live-virtual-constructive testing, and live events, ensuring results carry across stages.
- Set the simulation roadmap with engineering, making trade-offs involving fidelity and speed, sensor and communications modeling, scale, co-simulation, and self-service experiences across cloud and accredited networks.
- Collaborate with other Axion product leads to build on shared platform components such as simulation, campaigns, metrics, and jobs.
- Write clear requirements, define success metrics, and prioritize scope to focus engineering on the most important work for upcoming programs and events.
- Partner with design to shape tools used by test planners, vendors, and government evaluators.
- Communicate product strategy, status, risks, and trade-offs to Applied leadership and customers; present at test events, program reviews, and industry events.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time to customer sites, test ranges, and events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
