BRINC Drones

BRINC Drones

Principal TPM, Drone & Autonomy Software

Seattle, WA · Principal

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About the role

  • You will serve as the connective tissue between the device software, autonomy, and hardware engineering teams, ensuring that features are developed, validated, and delivered in lockstep with the broader device software stack.
  • You'll be responsible for creating predictable releases, maintaining cross-team alignment, and ensuring software ships safely and reliably into the field.
  • This is a critical role with software program leadership spanning new autonomy feature development, embedded platform evolution, and sustaining engineering for existing products.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of device software and autonomy programs spanning embedded/firmware, on-device services, perception, navigation, controls, mission logic, test, and release engineering.
  • Drive the week-to-week release cadence for deployed devices, including planning, readiness, rollout coordination, and post-release follow-up for OTA updates.
  • Partner closely with hardware engineering and product teams to align device software deliverables with new hardware releases (EVT/DVT/PVT milestones as needed).
  • Ensure tight collaboration with QA, flight test, and field stakeholders to validate software and autonomy features across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL),and real-world flight conditions.
  • Drive planning and delivery of autonomy features and capabilities, including localization, mapping, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and intelligent mission behaviors.
  • Manage cross-cutting technical dependencies between autonomy subsystems (perception, navigation, controls) and the device software platform, proactively identifying integration risks and resolving blockers.
  • As a vertically integrated U.S. drone technology company, BRINC designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous drone stations, command-and-control software, and advanced autonomy for public safety.
  • BRINC is recruiting exceptional engineers to build the next generation of autonomous emergency-response technology, including flight-critical firmware and advanced pilot-assistance capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (CS, EE, CE, Robotics, Aerospace, Systems, or related) or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven track record coordinating release trains and shipping updates to real-world deployed devices (e.g., OTA, staged rollouts).
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with ability to align engineering, autonomy, QA, hardware, and operations around a single release plan.
  • Strong technical fluency across embedded systems and autonomy: firmware/software boundaries, hardware-software interfaces, perception/navigation/controls pipelines, performance constraints, logging/telemetry, and validation strategies.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD for embedded software and autonomy, including automated test infrastructure, simulation pipelines, and fleet health metrics.
  • Understanding of fault-tolerant or safety-critical system design, redundancy strategies, and UAV flight safety requirements.

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of technical program management experience delivering embedded/device software or autonomy/robotics software for hardware products (robotics/UAVs/aerospace/safety-critical strongly preferred).

Skills

  • Experience with complex hardware/software mission-critical systems.
  • Familiarity with embedded Linux, RTOS, and common device update mechanisms.
  • Experience managing hardware/software co-development schedules across EVT/DVT/PVT and production ramp.
  • Familiarity with autonomy or robotics concepts such as SLAM/VIO, GNSS/INS fusion, path planning, obstacle avoidance, or flight controls.
  • Experience managing programs involving simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, or field validation of autonomous systems.
  • Startup experience: high ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and bias for action.
  • Try the hard stuff
  • Be innovative - Invent the future
  • Move fast
  • Listen to end-users
  • Strive for excellence
  • Don't build a dystopia

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)
  • Flexible work environment
  • Lead release readiness reviews: quality gates, test coverage, performance/regression expectations, rollback plans, and operational comms.
  • Track and communicate program health across multiple parallel development threads, balancing new capability development, safety and reliability improvements, and integration into production releases.

Company info

  • If you have a disability or special need, please let our recruiting team know - we strive to provide appropriate accommodation and assistance.
  • We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM), Drone & Autonomy Software to lead execution across BRINC's device software and autonomy stack for drones and public safety products.
  • At BRINC, we are building the technology that will define the future of emergency response.
  • BRINC serves more than 1,000 public safety customers across all 50 states, is the sole drone supplier to Motorola Solutions, and has raised more than $280 million from leading strategic and technology investors, including Motorola Solutions, Index Ventures, Sam Altman, Dylan Field, and others.

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