Technical Director

Technology Advancement Group (TAG) is a veteran-owned systems integrator in Ashburn, Virginia. We design, build and integrate assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) hardware and software for the Department of Defense and the companies that build for it. Our products include anti-jam CRPA antennas, horizon-nulling antennas and a miniature M-code GPS receiver. All of them are shipping today, with test data behind them, and our engineers integrate them into the systems our customers already run.

We're hiring a Technical Director to own the technical solution for our PNT product line end to end: the architecture, the design and the controlled design record. You'll report to our Chief Operating Officer and lead our electrical, mechanical, systems, software and test engineering teams. You'll turn customer and program requirements into specifications and test procedures, deliver designs that earn Production's release-readiness approval, and set the technology roadmap and IRAD direction. You'll work on-site in Ashburn. At a company our size, the Technical Director is also a hands-on technical lead, supporting Sales during capture and Programs during execution.

On an average day you'll handle some combination of the following. You'll own product design and every technical decision on system architecture, hardware, firmware and software. You'll convert customer and program requirements into the specification, with acceptance parameters and a clear definition of success. You'll author the verification and validation procedures and parameters that Production runs on built units; the first article is a production step. You'll own the technical data package and the design baseline, run configuration management, and release technical documentation for prototypes and customer deliverables. You'll own engineering BOMs and engineering work orders and direct engineering-internal development and bench testing, borrowing technicians when engineer-directed test or assembly work needs them. You'll bring manufacturability and documentation quality into design reviews, and you'll set priorities for the engineering teams, work with program managers and reorganize the team when delivery calls for it.

You'll be accountable for the functionality, suitability and technical performance of our solutions; for production-bound designs that pass Production's readiness approval on schedule; for a complete, current technical data package and configuration baseline; for test procedures and acceptance parameters delivered ahead of production V&V; and for on-schedule design milestones on every program.