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Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team, managing executive operations, board and investor communications, cross-functional initiatives, operating cadences, organizational planning, and stakeholder relationships. The role drives alignment, resolves blockers, supports strategic execution, represents the CEO externally, and maintains confidentiality across sensitive business matters in a defense technology environment.

Own day-to-day import and export trade compliance, including restricted-party screening, licensing, ITAR/EAR classifications, foreign-person controls, government submissions, training, audits, and recordkeeping. Partner with Engineering, Security, Contracts, Finance, and Operations to protect controlled information and support compliant technology transfers, shipments, and international engagements. Maintain and improve the company’s Export Management and Compliance Program while escalating complex legal and regulatory matters to outside counsel.

Develops persuasive Federal and DoD proposal content across RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, white papers, and related pursuit materials. Analyzes solicitations, translates complex technical concepts, interviews subject matter experts, incorporates capture strategies and evaluation criteria, and manages drafting, editing, reviews, graphics, templates, and final submissions. Collaborates across business development, engineering, programs, product, and leadership while managing multiple concurrent pursuits and compressed deadlines.

Own technical program execution for an autonomy engineering team, including requirements intake, refinement, traceability, acceptance criteria, change control, Jira governance, sprint ceremonies, release coordination, cross-team dependencies, and technical reporting. Translate mission and product intent across perception, planning, GNC, and multi-agent systems into clear engineering requirements. Establish process frameworks, surface delivery risks, and facilitate collaboration across engineering and business stakeholders.

Design and implement autonomy modules for multi-vehicle orchestration: path planning, task allocation, behavior execution, and validation. Integrate event-driven middleware, simulate and hardware-in-loop test autonomy for UAVs/USVs/UUVs, optimize edge performance on Jetson/Raspberry Pi-class devices, and ensure safety, explainability, and reliability for defense-relevant missions.

Lead strategy and execution for NODA's defense and federal event portfolio, owning planning, budgets, sponsorships, exhibits, vendor management, onsite operations, and post-event ROI measurement. Partner with Business Development, Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to design immersive demos and integrated marketing campaigns that drive pipeline, customer engagement, and market awareness.

Manage full contract lifecycle for government, public sector, and commercial programs: draft, negotiate, administer, and ensure compliance with FAR/DFARS/ITAR/EAR. Support proposals, task orders, subcontract flow-downs, risk assessments, CLM implementation, and stakeholder briefings while coordinating with BD, finance, engineering, and operations.

The Product Manager will lead the development of an autonomous orchestration platform, defining strategies, collaborating with engineering, and managing product lifecycles.

The Senior Platform Engineer will design and maintain infrastructure systems, deploying software for autonomous vehicles, with a focus on security and compliance in various environments.

Debug and resolve cross-system issues across software, real-time messaging, networking, RF, and hardware for multi-agent unmanned systems; pinpoint latency/performance problems, perform hardware diagnostics, support system health (baselining, crash analysis), maintain ICDs, and build observability and CI/CD for integration and release readiness.