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About the Role
Ghost Robotics builds advanced legged robots for demanding environments. This role is crucial for coordinating hardware, firmware, software, verification, manufacturing, and documentation to ensure successful product launches. You will own the execution framework, including schedules, risk registers, and readiness plans, working closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to ensure technical decisions are visible, sequenced, and funded. This is an execution leadership position focused on program delivery and meeting deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the integrated development plan for assigned programs, including milestones, critical path, dependencies, and release objectives.
- Translate product priorities into an executable schedule for the organization.
- Manage the risk and issue process, surfacing risks early, driving mitigation, and escalating issues requiring leadership decisions.
- Drive release readiness across engineering, manufacturing, software release management, technical documentation, training, and field support.
- Own development budget tracking against plan and flag cost, schedule, or resource impacts.
- Facilitate program reviews and readiness gates, and close action items.
- Deliver monthly program health reporting to executive leadership, covering progress, schedule, budget, risks, and pending decisions.
- Identify and remove obstacles hindering engineering from shipping products.
Requirements
- 7+ years running complex engineering development programs, including integrated hardware and software.
- Working fluency with integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, and formal risk management.
- Experience driving a physical product through release.
- Ability to influence senior engineers through credibility.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to clear standard employment background checks.
- May be required to obtain security clearances in the future.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
- Ability to travel and navigate by automobile, train, airplane, etc.
Skills
- Robotics
- Autonomous systems
- Aerospace
- Defense
- Complex electromechanical products
- MS Project
- Hybrid execution models (hardware stage-gate, software sprints)
Location
- Philadelphia, PA area, preferred
Work Type
- Hybrid execution models
- 20% Domestic and/or International Travel
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base
- Highly motivating equity incentive package
Benefits
- Full benefits
- Flexible time-off policy
About the Company
- Ghost Robotics builds legged robots for defense, security, and industrial customers operating in environments where failure is not recoverable.