Technical Director, Camgian Labs

As a Technical Director for Camgian Labs, our advanced R&D and rapid prototyping organization, you will lead execution of cutting-edge research and development efforts spanning internal innovation initiatives and customer-funded programs. You will empower engineers and researchers to pursue bold ideas, solve complex problems, and deliver meaningful mission impact.

In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership across multiple AI/ML and advanced R&D efforts. You will contribute to technical reviews, mentor engineers, support proposal development, and help strengthen the engineering and research practices that enable breakthrough innovation.

Reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), you will serve as a member of the Labs leadership team, helping shape staffing, technical execution, and organizational growth across the Labs portfolio. This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for developing staff, supporting execution, improving technical quality, and helping scale the organization's capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of experience in AI/ML and advanced R&D, including experience in algorithm development, autonomy, or complex software systems.

• 3+ years of formal people management experience, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and professional development of engineers, scientists, or technical staff, with a demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams.

• Strong technical expertise in AI/ML architecture, model development, evaluation, integration, and deployment.

• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent technical efforts, including staffing, schedules, budgets, dependencies, and risks.

• Ability to contribute meaningfully to architecture, design, model, and code reviews.

• Experience engaging government customers, research sponsors, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.

• Experience supporting technical proposals, research planning, or customer-funded R&D efforts.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time within the United States to support customer engagements, technical exchanges, and management responsibilities.

• Eligibility to obtain or maintain a U.S. government security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Desired Skills

• Master's or PhD in a relevant technical discipline.

• Experience supporting an advanced R&D organization or multi-program technical team.

• Familiarity with SBIR/STTR programs and related R&D funding strategies.

• Experience applying AI/ML technologies to national security missions such as air and missile defense, space, or counter-UAS.

• Experience evaluating and implementing technologies in environments involving sensitive or classified data.

• Experience developing intellectual property and transitioning prototype capabilities into products or operational systems.

• Experience improving engineering processes, technical evaluation practices, and collaboration across R&D and product organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide people leadership for engineers, researchers, and other Labs personnel through recruiting, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.

• Coordinate staffing and resource assignments across programs to balance priorities, capabilities, and business needs.

• Lead execution of internal and customer-funded R&D efforts through effective staffing, coordination, and resolution of technical and organizational challenges.

• Participate in architecture, design, model, code, and technical readiness reviews, and contribute directly to selected technical efforts when appropriate.

• Work with principal investigators and technical leads to address risks, resolve resource conflicts, and improve execution across multiple programs.

• Strengthen engineering and research practices through improved technical planning, evaluation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

• Support customer engagements, proposal development, technical planning, and technology transition activities.

• Serve as a member of the Labs leadership team, helping shape organizational growth, technical capabilities, staffing strategies, and execution priorities.

Why Join Us

• Join the leadership team of a growing advanced R&D organization tackling high-impact national security challenges.

• Work across IRAD, SBIR/STTR, and other customer-funded research programs from concept development through operational transition.

• Stay deeply engaged in technology development, technical reviews, and AI innovation.

• Collaborate with senior technical leaders, product teams, researchers, customers, and mission stakeholders on consequential technical challenges.

• Help build the people, culture, and engineering practices that enable breakthrough innovation.

• Contribute to technologies that deliver meaningful operational impact in defense and national security missions.

About Camgian

Camgian develops advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that accelerate decision-making in high-stakes environments. Our solutions support missions across air and missile defense, space defense, and counter-UAS operations by improving situational awareness, decision quality, and operational effectiveness.