Own Core Services: Drive the roadmap for ATARS foundational systems — diagnostics, multiplayer networking, render pipeline, and physics — ensuring they are robust, scalable, and combat training-ready.
Bridge Disciplines: Collaborate across hardware, software, optics, and design teams to integrate core services into a seamless system-of-systems product.
Simulation & Rendering Leadership: Partner with engineers to prioritize fidelity in physics models, rendering pipelines, and multiplayer synchronization.
Workflow & Reliability: Ensure that pilots, instructors, and test teams experience stable, intuitive, and operationally relevant workflows built on top of your services.
Stakeholder Engagement: Translate pilot, instructor, and DoD program manager feedback into actionable requirements for your domain.
Agile Delivery: Drive iterative development, testing, and demo readiness, with rapid feedback cycles from flights and simulations.
Operational Support: Contribute to demo planning, diagnostics workflows, and field exercises, ensuring your core services perform under real-world conditions.
Requirements
Proven track record (5–7 years or equivalent impact) in product management for complex, hardware-integrated or simulation-heavy software products.
Strong technical fluency in at least one of the following: real-time networking/multiplayer systems, game/render pipelines, physics engines, or diagnostics/observability tools.
Demonstrated ability to work closely with UX/design teams on workflows, while grounding decisions in system reliability and performance.
Proven ability to prioritize tradeoffs across engineering, design, and operational stakeholders in high-stakes environments.
Experience integrating emerging AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or domain-specific AI platforms) into workflows for faster requirements gathering, research, or documentation.
Qualified candidates must have the ability to obtain a security clearance. This requires U.S. Citizenship.