Technical Project Manager (Embedded)

The role

You will lead embedded product development projects from concept through production release. You will manage project plans, schedules, budgets, and coordinate activities across multiple engineering and supply chain teams.

What you will do

• Lead embedded product development projects from concept, design, validation, and production release.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Track project progress, identify potential roadblocks, and drive corrective actions.
• Coordinate activities across hardware, software, mechanical, PCB layout, component engineering, production test, and certification teams.
• Facilitate Agile development processes and ensure alignment between engineering teams and business objectives.
• Work closely with Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Production Test, and external suppliers.
• Manage project communications, status reporting, and stakeholder expectations.
• Coordinate and oversee work performed by external vendors, contractors, and offshore development partners.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in stage-gate reviews and ensure project readiness for key development milestones.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of project or program management experience
• Experience in establishing and/or optimizing product development
• Experience taking embedded products from concept through to production
• Experience coordinating with teams using the agile development methodology
• Experience developing detailed project plans consisting of detailed schedules, budget, risk/risk mitigation, staffing allocation and planning
• Experience planning and coordinating projects with cross functional teams (quality, supply chain, production, production test, offshore board houses)

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in computer science or equivalent
• PMP/ PMI-ACP/ CSM certification desired
• Experience managing external & offshore contractors desired
• Familiar with ISO development processes/procedures desired
• Familiar with working with a gate model development environment a plus
• Familiar with the development activities/processes required by the following disciplines: hardware, software, mechanical, layout, component engineering, production test and certification

Benefits

• mentorship
• career growth opportunities
• comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. They partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, and more.