Role SummaryThe Vice President of Technology is a senior executive leader, reporting to the President of Concurrent Real-Time and serving as a key member of the leadership team. This role sets the technical vision, shapes investment priorities, and guides the product roadmap; building a high performing engineering organization that turns innovation into fielded capability for mission critical customers.
Aerospace & Defense is entering a new era of software defined capability, rapid technology cycles, and compressed timelines from concept to deployment. Programs increasingly demand determinism, cyber resilience, and measurable mission impact; while new entrants and emerging architectures raise the bar for speed, integration, and operational relevance.
The Haed of Technology will align strategy, teams, and partners to operate as a high velocity bridge between concept and capability; accelerating innovation into our base platforms, de risking adoption, and delivering differentiated embedded solutions customers can deploy with confidence.
Key ResponsibilitiesTechnology & Architecture Leadership- Define and evolve the technology strategy and roadmap across RTOS, embedded software, HIL, and computing platforms; prioritizing the work that creates clear customer value and durable competitive advantage.
- Provide architectural leadership to ensure solutions meet determinism, performance, safety, security, and long term maintainability requirements.
- Champion engineering excellence and disciplined execution, balancing innovation with pragmatism in mission-critical environments.
Engineering Leadership & Talent Development- Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders; build leadership depth and succession.
- Lead and scale agile teams (Scrum/Kanban), setting clear objectives and enabling predictable delivery.
- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning; remove obstacles so teams can do their best work.
Cross Functional Collaboration- Partner with Product Management, Sales/BD, Operations, and Quality to align technology investment to customer needs, program realities, and business strategy-guiding tradeoffs with clarity and data.
- Establish a process driven operating cadence across the portfolio; use metrics and disciplined execution practices to improve predictability, quality, and time to impact.
- Support key pursuits and programs with technical credibility, especially in aerospace and defense customer engagements.
Customer & External Engagement- Serve as a senior technical representative with key customers; translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions for both technical and executive audiences.
- Own engagement with key technology partners (SBC manufacturers, chassis vendors, motherboard manufacturers, specialized I/O board providers, and PCIe ecosystem partners) to align technical requirements, joint roadmaps, integration readiness, and go to market opportunities.
- Lead the embedded and deployed product roadmap with OEMs and embedded solution providers; enable partners to sell and deploy RedHawk Linux as part of integrated embedded solutions.
- Represent Concurrent Real-Time's technical vision with credibility and confidence.
Executive & Strategic Leadership- Serve on the Concurrent Real-Time senior leadership team and report directly to the President.
- Translate long-term business objectives into clear technology and engineering priorities; influence investment, partnerships, and roadmap decisions to ensure focus on outcomes that matter.
- Act as a visible, trusted executive leader who represents engineering and technology across the business.
Required Qualifications- Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in software, systems, or embedded engineering, including senior leadership roles.
- Strong background in real-time operating systems (RTOS), embedded software, or mission-critical computing platforms.
- Demonstrated success leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams.
- Experience working in aerospace, defense, or other highly regulated environments (safety critical or security critical); able to operate effectively in a growing organization where structure and scale are evolving.
Preferred Qualifications- Hands-on experience with embedded or real-time Linux and/or commercial RTOS environments.
- Experience leading agile development at scale (planning, backlog management, and cross team dependency management).
- Familiarity with embedded computing platforms (for example: SBCs, CPUs/SoCs, FPGA based systems) and long lifecycle A&D or safety certification considerations.
- Experience building and managing OEM/ISV/technology partner ecosystems (joint roadmap planning and technical enablement for embedded platforms).
- Prior experience supporting U.S. aerospace or defense customers.
Leadership Attributes We Value- Servant leader who develops people, builds trust, and creates alignment across stakeholders.
- Technically credible and respected by engineers, customers, and partners.
- Pragmatic and mission focused; calm under pressure and effective in ambiguity.
- Clear, concise communicator with a bias for disciplined execution and continuous improvement.
