Technical Program Manager, Digital
About Northwood:Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail.RoleNorthwood is building a global network of satellite ground stations, and the Digital org spans backend, frontend, DSP, FPGA, embedded, and infrastructure. As these products run in parallel against hard customer commitments. This role owns the horizontal layer: real-time visibility into engineering delivery risk across the Digital portfolio, and the processes and tooling that let the org execute coherently.This is not a role that owns technical direction or schedules IC time; that authority stays with engineers and functional leads. It is the role that holds the integrated delivery picture, surfaces and resolves cross-team risk before it becomes a missed pass, and gives mission management and customers a straight answer on where things stand.ResponsibilitiesMaintain real-time visibility into engineering delivery risk across Digital products: modem pipelines, beamforming, telemetry, scheduling, and ground-station softwareOwn the software development lifecycle across these products: build and maintain execution plans, dependency maps, and delivery schedules, and drive clarity on priorities, ownership, technical debt, and operational readinessBuild the processes, tooling, and visibility that let teams coordinate without relying on proximity and ad-hoc alignmentIdentify and drive resolution of integration risks across the hardware/software and cross-domain boundaries; escalate to engineering leadership when team-level resolution failsCoordinate testing and validation across simulation, staging, lab, and deployed environmentsPartner with mission management and participate directly in customer meetings, translating engineering state into an honest read on delivery risk for programs and customersFlag staffing gaps to the relevant functional leads, who make the staffing callPartner with engineering leadership to improve development velocity, operational reliability, and deployment readinessBasic Qualifications5+ years in Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering, or technical engineering leadershipStrong technical understanding of software systems and distributed infrastructureExperience working with DSP, RF, embedded, or real-time systems teamsTrack record of building delivery processes and tooling, not just running existing onesPreferred QualificationsExperience with SDRs, modem systems, satellite communications, wireless, or telecom infrastructureFamiliarity with DSP concepts such as filtering, synchronization, modulation/demodulation, channel estimation, or beamformingExperience coordinating FPGA, embedded Linux, or high-performance compute effortsExperience in customer-facing or program-interface rolesAerospace, defense, or mission-critical systems experienceFamiliarity with ITAR, classified systems, or regulated operational environments