Technical Program Manager

About Us

Havoc is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy. Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments. Havoc connects assets, enabling them to share information, adapt in real time, and continue operating even when communications are disrupted or denied. Havoc optimizes mission performance and minimizes human risk.

Havoc was founded in 2024 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Learn more at Havoc: All-Domain Collaborative Autonomy .

About the Role

As a Technical Program Manager, you will drive technical execution across complex robotics, autonomy, software, and defense programs. You will work closely with engineering, product, operations, field teams, and customers to turn mission needs into executable plans and delivered capabilities.

This role requires technical depth, strong program leadership, and the ability to operate across hardware, software, autonomy, systems integration, testing, and deployment. You will own schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery plans while working directly with technical teams to keep execution moving.

This is not a traditional project coordination role. You will be expected to understand the systems being built, identify technical and programmatic risks, unblock engineering teams, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and help deliver mission-ready robotic systems at speed.

Key Responsibilities

Program Execution & Cross-Functional Delivery

Own execution for robotics, autonomy, software, and defense-related engineering programs

Drive planning, milestones, schedules, risks, dependencies, and cross-functional delivery

Translate customer needs, contract requirements, and mission objectives into clear technical plans

Coordinate across software, autonomy, hardware, manufacturing, field operations, product, and customer-facing teams

Identify risks early and work with engineering and company leadership to resolve them

Engineering Integration & Test

Partner with engineering leads to define requirements, interfaces, integration plans, test plans, and release criteria

Coordinate integration across software, hardware, autonomy, sensing, communications, and platform systems

Plan and support system testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, field testing, demonstrations, and operational evaluations

Ensure teams are prepared with test objectives, success criteria, readiness reviews, data collection plans, and post-test analysis workflows

Track field findings, failure modes, corrective actions, and engineering closure

Customer, Defense & Team Operations

Support execution of government, defense, and dual-use technology programs

Interface with defense, government, and commercial stakeholders as needed

Support proposal planning, customer briefings, program reviews, deliverables, and execution reporting

Communicate program status, risks, milestones, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly

Establish effective planning, documentation, reporting, escalation, and decision-making cadences

Help engineering teams move quickly while maintaining technical rigor, accountability, and execution discipline

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field

5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program leadership, systems engineering, robotics, defense technology, autonomy, software, or related fields

Experience managing complex technical programs with cross-functional engineering teams

Technical background in robotics, software systems, autonomy, hardware/software integration, defense systems, or fielded technology products

Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts across software, hardware, autonomy, sensors, communications, testing, and operations

Experience leading schedules, milestones, risk management, integration planning, test readiness, and delivery execution