Technical Program Manager - AI Vulnerability Platform

About the role

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos-owned company, is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams building an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software and machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, turning an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead roadmap and release planning, and coordinate accreditation and deployment timelines across implementation environments and customer stakeholders
• Manage dependencies across model providers and third-party components
• Evaluate estimates, identify unstated dependencies and communicate scope, schedule and risk to engineering teams and senior stakeholders
• Deliver programs that incorporate AI/ML or agentic components

Required profile

• 10+ years in technical program management, engineering management or product development, including software products delivered to production
• Owns technical delivery from concept through production release, across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority
• Hands-on engineering background preferred
• Experience managing software deployments and releases at scale across cloud, on-premises and classified or air-gapped environments
• Experience in a government or regulated environment, including RMF, ATO and continuous ATO accreditation timelines
• Ability to communicate program status, risk and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executives and customers
• Preferred: prior experience in vulnerability research, offensive security or cyber operations, and a transition from research or prototype to product

Required skills

• Program execution, roadmap development, release planning and cadence management
• Cross-team dependency mapping, critical path management, risk identification and mitigation
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe or Kanban at team and program level
• Release health metrics, progress briefs, and program financials
• SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, build integrity and release engineering
• Cloud, on-premises infrastructure, containers and Kubernetes
• Vulnerability management workflows (SAST, DAST, SCA)
• AI/LLM system delivery, model orchestration and benchmarking