Director Programs Wheeled Platforms and Robotics
📌Sterling Heights, MI, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Position Description
As the Program Director you will be responsible for overall cost, schedule and performance. This role requires a strong leader with experience in program governance, change management, and stakeholder engagement. You will oversee a team of program managers and cross functional teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals while driving accountability across departments.
What Will You Do - Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of Stryker, Air Defense and Robotics programs, ensuring that they are delivered on-time, within scope, to contract performance requirements and under budget
- Capture new business in order to increase backlog of the overall portfolio
- Engage and maintain customer relationships to facilitate open and honest communications
- Drive planning processes and collaborate with Leadership to align goals with business objectives
- Collaborate with the Process Center Leadership and other supporting organizations, to meet/exceed customer expectations
- Establish and maintain program governance frameworks, performance metrics, and reporting mechanisms
- Manage and mentor a team of program managers and cross functional teams to foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and operational excellence
- Facilitate communication across the business to identify dependencies, mitigate risks, and resolve issues
- Develop and maintain detailed program plans, timelines, and resource forecasts
- Serve as the escalation point for program related issues to ensure timely resolution
- Lead change management efforts to support successful adoption of new initiatives
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Monitor and report on program health and portfolio status to the Customer, Leadership and Stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree
- Proven work experience in the program/project management discipline
- 10 + years of experience in leading a team to achieve their goals
- Ability to work in a matrix organizational construct
- Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to think strategically while managing tactical execution
- PMP or similar designation preferred
- Ability to produce briefings to convey important concepts and ideas
- Ability to obtain Secret Clearance
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Ability to travel and possess/be able to acquire and maintain a valid passport
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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