Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SAS is a leader in data and AI, providing software and services that help customers transform data into intelligence. The Senior Digital Twin Technical Program Manager will lead delivery of a real-time Digital Twin Platform, coordinating engineering, simulation, data integration, and stakeholder activities. The role owns program planning, scheduling, risk management, technical trade-offs, documentation, and communication across complex software programs.
Responsibilities
- Own the program plan for the Digital Twin Platform: define scope and goals with engineering leads and stakeholders, sequence dependencies across the real-time 3D, simulation and data integration workstreams, and set the milestones the roadmap is measured against
- Plan, prioritize and adjust delivery schedule, scope, resourcing and quality as requirements evolve, making explicit and defensible trade-offs between simulation fidelity, runtime performance and release commitments
- Act as the central point of contact for technical and business issues across the program, participating in design and architecture reviews, translating engineering constraints for stakeholders and business priorities for engineers
- Identify, track and mitigate technical risk early, including asset and content pipelines, engine and toolchain upgrades, GPU and hardware dependencies, third-party licensing. Be ready to escalate with a recommended course of action
- Coordinate the activities of domestic and international engineering, design and data teams; negotiate resource and dependency conflicts constructively and keep commitments aligned across groups and functions at SAS
- Maintain program documentation including plans, schedules, risk registers and status reporting, and communicate progress, decisions and changes to senior and executive management
- Keep current with state-of-the-art real-time simulation technologies, standards and practices, and transfer that knowledge to the wider program and project management community at SAS
- Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals
- Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
- Minimum 8 years of combined experience in software engineering and technical program or project management, including at least 3 years managing large-scale, complex software programs
- Hands-on engineering experience delivering real-time 3D or simulation applications in Unreal Engine or a comparable engine, sufficient to review technical designs, size effort and assess risk without translation
- Working knowledge of simulation fundamentals: physics modeling, sensor simulation and synthetic data generation. The more experience with 3D and industrial data interchange, including USD, CAD formats and IoT or telemetry ingestion, the better!
- Demonstrated record of delivering multi-team software programs on schedule and across time zones, owning scope, dependency and risk management end to end
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications
- **Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills** – Comprehends and explains technical terminology and recent advances in real-time simulation, and applies that expertise to solve difficult delivery problems and judge technical trade-offs
- **Driving for Results** – Sets challenging goals for self and the program, measures progress against them, and works tenaciously to remove obstacles so commitments are met
- **Communication** – Conveys information clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences, adjusts the message to the listener, and listens actively to confirm understanding
- PMP, PgMP or SAFe certification, or equivalent professional program management training
- Experience with NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD pipelines, or comparable tooling for moving data between CAD and PLM systems and real-time engines
- Background delivering digital twin, industrial simulation, robotics or autonomous systems products in manufacturing, energy, utilities or logistics
- Experience with SAS software, or with integrating analytics and streaming data into simulation environments
- To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status
- Advanced degree preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
- A pharmacy that ships prescriptions for no additional charge to employees who are not local to HQ.
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and the U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
- Hybrid work in Cary, North Carolina or remote work in the US.
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