Senior Hardware/Software Technical Program Manager

Fresh Consulting•Houston, TX

3d•$170,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Fresh Consulting is a design-led, software development and hardware engineering company, offering end-to-end digital services to help companies innovate. We bring together amazing UX designers, sophisticated developers, digital strategists, and top-notch engineers to help companies create fresh experiences that connect humans, systems, and machines. We’ve been growing fast and need someone to help us continue to manage the delivery of high-quality work in a fast-paced environment. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional delivery of our Orbital Compute platform, the secure, orchestrated edge-to-orbit compute system that pairs radiation-tolerant compute payloads with a Linux- and Rust-based software stack running NVIDIA-accelerated AI/ML workloads. In this role, the successful candidate will own program planning and end-to-end execution across hardware, software, security, and systems teams, coordinating delivery across engineering groups of ten or more and driving programs from proof of concept through on-orbit deployment. Operating in a fast-paced environment characterized by rapid iteration and significant ambiguity, the successful candidate will manage scope, schedule, dependencies, and risk along the critical path; work directly with customers and third-party vendors to deliver integrated solutions; and serve as the connective tissue between the engineering teams and company leadership, translating technical detail into clear status, risk, and prioritization decisions. This role maybe filled at the Technical Program Manager or Senior Technical Program Manager level commensurate with experience. This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, or another related technical or quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
Hands-on software development background, or equivalent depth, sufficient to read design documents and reason about distributed systems, service architectures, APIs, and the software development lifecycle.
Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional programs, building processes, and coordinating release schedules across multiple engineering teams
Strong project-management disciplines: scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical-path management
Track record of leading delivery across engineering groups of ten or more
Experience working directly with customers and third-party vendors to deliver integrated solutions
Experience delivering integrated hardware-and-software products (hardware/software co-delivery, embedded, edge, or space systems) strongly preferred
Technical fluency with Linux, Rust, the NVIDIA software stack (CUDA/GPU), and AI/ML workloads preferred
Prefer experience with Agile/Scrum and modern program-tracking and CI/CD tooling
Prefer experience delivering in regulated, secure, or export-controlled environments (ITAR/EAR); an active or prior U.S. Government security clearance is a plus
track record of making things happen in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Uses good judgement to problem-solve proactively, positively impacting hard challenges
Demonstrated organization skills to meet tight deadlines with high quality results

Nice To Haves

Passion for space and the mission
Entrepreneurial, growth mindset
High EQ and ability to collaborate within teams and cross-functionally
Influence without authority — driving cross-functional teams to deliver
Tech-solutioning in using systems and tools to move smarter and faster

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery of cross-functional programs for the Orbital Compute platform, from inception through on-orbit deployment, spanning hardware, software, security, and systems engineering teams.
Coordinate delivery across engineering groups of ten or more, aligning multiple teams the role does not directly manage to a shared plan, roadmap, and set of milestones
Build and maintain integrated program plans — scope, schedule, dependencies, critical path, and resourcing — across parallel hardware and software workstreams
Proactively assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, navigate tradeoffs, and unblock delivery; drive issues and escalations to resolution across teams
Work directly with customers and third-party vendors and suppliers to deliver integrated solutions, managing external dependencies, interfaces, and integration milestones
Own program status communication: deliver clear, concise summaries of progress, risk, and decisions to engineering leadership and executives, and run the program's operating cadence of reviews and planning
Read and reason about system-level technical design and hold credible technical tradeoff discussions with senior engineers across the Linux, Rust, NVIDIA, and AI/ML stack
Partner with engineering leads to scope efforts, set priorities, coordinate release schedules, and build the business cases that inform prioritization and investment decisions
Build and improve sustainable delivery processes that accelerate execution, reduce cost, and raise quality
Steward clear, accurate technical and program documentation
Deliver iteratively and quickly in a fast-paced environment with significant ambiguity
Perform additional job duties as assigned