Full Job Description
We are 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.
Required Experience:
• 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. Hands-on engineering background preferred.
• 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.
Relevant Skills:
Program Execution
• Roadmap development, release planning, and cadence management, actual/planned program financials
• Cross-team dependency mapping and critical path management
• Risk identification, mitigation planning, and escalation
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban at team and program level
• Program metrics and reporting, including Release Health, and Progress Briefs
Technical Program Manager - Job Description:
Technical Fluency
• Software development lifecycle and DevSecOps pipelines
• CI/CD, build integrity, and release engineering
• Cloud and on-premises infrastructure, containers, and Kubernetes
• API and integration planning across systems and vendors
• Vulnerability management workflows and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA)
• AI/LLM system delivery, including evaluation frameworks, model orchestration, and benchmarking
Preferred Qualifications:
• 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,
Original Posting:
September 9, 2026
Pay Range:
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.