goTenna

Scientist

• Designing, implementing, simulating, and analyzing network protocol models.
• Designing cutting-edge medium access, routing, and transport protocols for mesh networking.
• Constructing models and running simulations in Network Simulator 3 (ns-3) or similar discrete-event simulation tool to evaluate, refine, and estimate performance for a variety of scenarios.
• Producing design specifications and experimental analysis reports.
• Understanding the radio hardware and constraints to accurately represent them in models.
• Collaborating with the firmware team to support the implementation in actual radio hardware, including supporting the firmware implementation via simulation results and auxiliary software as appropriate.
• Working with the Product team to determine the feasibility of new features and capabilities.
• Professional activities including publishing at peer-reviewed conferences, journals and performing committee service.
• Driving cutting-edge innovation in wireless networking and related technologies, facilitating new idea generation, and patenting inventions.
• Writing company white papers to allow the team and customers to keep up with state-of-the-art developments.
• Supporting troubleshooting of issues found by the QA team, when needed.
• Providing expert-level protocol know-how training and support to other teams.

Network Scientist

Program Manager

• Work directly with peers and goTenna’s government customers to lead and execute strategic development and integration of goTenna off-grid networking technology to drive mission impact.
• Develop, track, and analyze detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams through planning, execution, risk management, and customer engagement.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards for program deliverables and to government contract requirements.
• Coordinate meetings, test events, and demonstrations to showcase technical capabilities to customer audiences.
• Lead contractual agreement drafting with partners and vendors related to program delivery.
• Manage the integration of vendor tasks and track and review vendor deliverables.
• Identify program risks, develop mitigation strategies, and proactively communicate impacts to stakeholders.
• Develop and communicate multiple program roadmaps internally and diligently update internal data systems.

Technical Project Manager

• Develop, track, analyze, and manage detailed project plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Plan and lead project milestone meetings and tollgates in coordination and collaboration with goTenna staff, vendors, and others as needed; summarize all project components, coordinate across the organization, gather documentation, and generate meeting materials.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and compliance regulations for project milestones and to government contract requirements.
• Manage unforeseen project delays; realigning schedules and expectations as needed.
• Work directly with goTenna’s government customers to lead and execute strategic development and integration of goTenna off-grid networking technology to drive mission impact.
• Coordinate meetings, test events, and demonstrations to showcase technical capabilities.
• Develop project communication plans, routinely providing status reports to stakeholders.
• Conduct thorough risk management for all project risks and opportunities and provide regular updates to management on steps to mitigate risks and minimize any potential delays.
• Lead contractual agreement drafting with partners and vendors related to project delivery.
• Develop and communicate multiple project roadmaps internally and diligently update internal data systems.
• Effectively communicate in-flight and planned projects with metrics, KPIs, risks, dependencies, obstacles, and mitigation plans.

Scrum Master

• Facilitate Scrum events (Quarterly Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, etc.) and ensure outcomes are clear and actionable.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to improve backlog readiness, requirement quality, prioritization, and acceptance criteria clarity at an organization level.
• Work with Product and Engineering Leads to support backlog refinement and readiness, ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately scoped, and ready for development.
• Identify, escalate, and remove delivery impediments while coordinating cross-functional dependencies and resolving execution risks.
• Drive transparency, ownership, and accountability through delivery metrics, planning rigor, and effective cross-functional communication.
• Provide transparent, data-driven reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery forecasts to support informed decision-making and predictable outcomes.
• Coach teams to drive continuous improvement, optimize workflow efficiency, and drive predictable delivery.
• Coordinate cross-team planning and alignment on objectives, dependencies, deliverables, and release timelines.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration to proactively identify, manage, and resolve inter-team dependencies, enabling effective planning and successful execution of complex initiatives.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics including cycle time, throughput, predictability, sprint health, and release performance.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies, and execution bottlenecks and drive mitigation plans.
• Coordinate release planning activities across Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluate and improve software delivery processes to increase efficiency, predictability, and quality.