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Salary: USD 225,000 - 300,000 / annual
Voyager Technologies is seeking a Principal Technical Director, National Security to serve as the senior technical leader for the company's national security Advanced Programs portfolio within the Technology and Advanced Development group. This is a high-impact leadership role reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, based in either Long Beach, CA or Washington D.C.
You will drive the technical vision for emerging, high-impact space technologies and lead Voyager's investments in non-kinetic effects, space control, intelligence systems, edge computing, cyber, and multi-regime communications. The role requires deep familiarity with hardware, software, and algorithms across the space domain, with the ability to direct how novel technologies are incubated and applied across existing programs to reach deployed, mission-critical capability for the warfighter. You must be equally comfortable defining and executing complex research and development programs and productizing outcomes into monetizable commercial motions.
Key responsibilities include: owning the technology strategy for the national security Advanced Programs portfolio and serving as the ultimate technical authority across intelligence collection, non-kinetic effects, space control, cyber, autonomy, and multi-regime communications; leading the execution of complex, high-stakes R&D programs (CRAD/IRAD) and managing the IRAD pipeline end-to-end; architecting end-to-end systems bridging hardware, software, and mission software across space and ground segments; guiding technologies from TRL 3–6 into robust, productized solutions ready for manufacturing and deployment; building, inspiring, and mentoring a world-class, multidisciplinary engineering organization; partnering with Growth, Business Development, and Capture teams to refine customer requirements and shape solution spaces; and supporting due diligence and post-acquisition integration for inorganic growth opportunities.
This role requires a rare blend of deep national security space expertise and the strategic ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams. You will be responsible for ensuring that Advanced Programs investments translate into deployed capabilities for government customers.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Must currently hold an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Security Clearance (hard requirement)
- Demonstrated background designing, developing, and deploying national security space systems, including intelligence collection, space control, and communications, with direct experience navigating space-environment constraints such as radiation hardening, thermal management, and long-duration mission reliability
- Strong track record designing and developing complex algorithms across space digital systems domains, and applying modern compute and AI/ML techniques to national security engineering problems
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through the full lifecycle of advanced R&D programs, from white paper to prototype to deployment
- Demonstrated background fielding capability in one or more space technology domains, including space control, SIGINT, cyber, autonomy, networks, or non-kinetics
- Familiarity with the unique challenges of government R&D contracting, including experience delivering against technical milestones for customers such as DARPA, SCO, AFRL, NRO, or the Space Force
- Proven proposal development experience, including contributing to technical volumes and cost estimations for complex government solicitations
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Background across Title 10 and Title 50 space systems and distributed operations
- Technical domain experience in non-kinetic and kinetic effects, SIGINT/GEOINT, EW, cyber resilience, or space control
- Direct experience with space-based technology programs for DoD or Intelligence Community customers, and a demonstrated history of leading winning national security proposals
- Exposure to classified program offices, SAP portfolios, and associated budgets
- Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites, test ranges, and Voyager locations
