Senior Manager, Government Programs

Engineering teams in aerospace, defense, and industrial turbomachinery are still limited by tools designed for a different era. Tools that weren't built for the complexity of today's programs, force engineers to guess rather than explore, and slow down development cycles that the market no longer has patience for. nTop exists to change that, giving engineers the ability to explore thousands of design variants in parallel using AI-driven optimization. The result: programs that used to take years compress into months, and products that weren't physically possible before now get built and flown. We're at an inflection point: our software is proven with the most rigorous customers on earth, and now we're scaling the business to match. 

We are building a meaningful pipeline of direct government programs and teaming engagements across defense, aerospace, and adjacent agencies. When those programs land, nTop will be on the hook to deliver software and engineering services that produce real outcomes for the customer. 

At its core, this is a program management and delivery role. When nTop wins a government contract as a prime, a subcontractor, or a named technology partner on a teaming agreement, this person is responsible for executing it. In the near term, you will be the program manager: the person in the room, managing the customer relationship, delivering the CDRLs, and building the team around you as programs land. 

This role reports directly to the CRO, and works closely with field engineering, product, and the government-facing BD team. This hire doesn’t need to be the most technically deep person on every program, but will need enough technical fluency to evaluate the engineers you’re hiring, understand what your team is building, and hold a substantive conversation with a government program office or prime contractor technical lead.