Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SiFly is building vertical-takeoff, long-endurance drones that combine aerial robotics, perception, onboard intelligence, and advanced communications. The Technical Project Manager will establish project management practices for cloud and embedded software, coordinate distributed engineering teams, track plans and dependencies, and provide leadership with clear status and risk visibility.
Responsibilities
- Run daily and weekly standups (virtually) with our software engineering teams across Europe and the US, keeping efforts coordinated across time zones
- Project management for both cloud and embedded software — tracking priorities, dependencies, milestones, and risks across teams
- Turn high-level goals into clear, sequenced development plans, and keep them current as things change
- Surface and unblock cross-team dependencies before they become bottlenecks, especially where cloud and embedded work meet
- Give engineering leadership a clear, honest view of status, tradeoffs, and timelines — and flag problems early
- Establish lightweight processes and tooling for planning, tracking, and communication that fit a fast-moving team — without adding bureaucracy
- Coordinate releases and integration efforts, working closely with the Software, Firmware, Electrical, Integration, and Test teams
- Help our distributed teams stay connected, aligned, and moving in the same direction
Skills
- Proven experience as a technical project manager for software — ideally spanning both cloud/backend and embedded/firmware development
- A track record of running standups and driving delivery across distributed, multi-time-zone engineering teams
- Strong technical fluency: enough software background to earn engineers' trust, dig into dependencies, and understand tradeoffs across the stack
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, and the ability to manage many varied efforts simultaneously
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action — you can build process from scratch and adapt it as the team grows
- First-principles thinking and the judgment to know when to add structure and when to get out of the way
- Willingness to overlap with European working hours as needed to keep teams in sync
- Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, or other complex hardware + software domain
- Familiarity with real-time or safety-critical embedded systems and the constraints that come with them
- Experience coordinating software that ships on physical products and ties into field testing
- Hands-on experience with modern planning and issue-tracking tools and CI/CD workflows
- A background in software engineering earlier in your career
Benefits
- Remote work available, with East Coast preferred.
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