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# Technical Program Manager in Sterling

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Sterling, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $131,300.0 - $237,350.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Deployment
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/technical-program-manager-sterling-31610859

## About the Role

* 10+ years of professional experience in technical program management, engineering management, or product development, including delivery of software products to production.
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 * Experience owning technical delivery from concept through production release, including scoping, sequencing, and driving execution across multiple engineering disciplines without direct authority.
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 * Technical fluency sufficient to review design documentation, evaluate estimates, and manage dependencies at the architecture level. Hands-on engineering background .
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 * Experience managing software deployments and release processes at scale across multiple cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped or classified installations, including the constraints those environments place on release cadence and update paths.
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 * Experience delivering in a government or regulated environment, including management of accreditation timelines (RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO) as schedule dependencies.
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 * Experience managing programs which incorporating AI/ML or agentic components.
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 * Demonstrated ability to communicate program status, risk, and tradeoffs to engineering teams, executive leadership, and customer stakeholders.

## Description

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead execution across the teams developing an AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform. The role sits between vulnerability researchers, software engineers, machine learning engineers, and government stakeholders, and is responsible for translating an evolving technical capability into a product delivered on a predictable release cadence.


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