Technical Program Manager

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

22h

About The Position

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos Owned Company, is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, and is responsible for translating an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence. Responsibilities could span roadmap and release planning, dependency management across model providers and third-party components, and coordination of accreditation and deployment timelines for a range of implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders. The Technical Program Manager will maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.
Experience owning technical delivery from concept through production release, including scoping, sequencing, and driving execution across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority.
Technical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level.
Experience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.
Experience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.
Experience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.
Demonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on engineering background preferred.
Prior experience supporting vulnerability research, offensive security, or cyber operations programs.
Experience transitioning research or prototype capability into a sustained product.
Active security clearance.
Certifications such as PMP.

Responsibilities

Lead execution across teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform.
Translate evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.
Manage roadmap and release planning.
Manage dependencies across model providers and third-party components.
Coordinate accreditation and deployment timelines for various implementation environments and diverse customer stakeholders.
Evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies, and communicate scope, schedule, and risk accurately to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.