Senior Engineering Program Manager II

**WHO WE ARE** Biofire Technologies is on a mission to give gun owners better tools for reducing preventable gun injuries and deaths, especially among children. We believe our technology, combined with a best-in-class customer experience, will define the future of firearms safety for the next generation. Our mission-driven approach has earned support from the firearm community, the tech world, and the media. Biofire employees encompass a diverse range of talents, including world-class engineers who have designed and tested firearms, medical devices, robots, cars, satellites, rockets, and supersonic jets; expert technicians from aerospace, defense tech, special forces, and gunsmithing; and elite operators from high-tech, advanced manufacturing, and regulated industries. Whether building the product or powering the company behind it, every Biofire team member is united by an obsession with safety, reliability, and operational excellence. **OUR CULTURE** Reducing accidental firearm injuries and deaths requires original thinking and authentic collaboration, so we’re deeply invested in building a team and culture that can achieve our mission together. Team members enjoy autonomy and flexibility from day one, so expect to be immediately tasked with solving challenging problems and building new systems that work. We’ll hold you accountable for executing audacious goals, giving and receiving honest feedback, and helping your teammates succeed. You’ll receive respect, kindness, and support from every direction while you figure out how to get it all done. **ABOUT THE ROLE** As Senior Engineering Program Manager at Biofire, you will drive execution across complex hardware and product-engineering programs. The programs you’ll manage will ensure teams have one clear view of what is changing, when changes occur, and dependencies by building and operating a program management infrastructure that keeps work visible, risks explicit, decisions documented, and cross-functional commitments ground in technical and execution reality. This role collaborates across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Certification, Software, and Operations. You will work closely with engineering leaders and peer program managers to surface tradeoffs early, resolve ownership ambiguity, and ensure decisions are carried through to execution on the production floor. The ideal candidate is a technically credible program leader who can maintain a multi-threaded view of product configuration and identify hidden dependencies before they become schedule surprises. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** - Build and maintain integrated engineering program plans that converge feature development, test/verification, certification activity, and production cut-ins into coherent product configurations. - Maintain a clear view of active engineering work, upcoming configuration changes, cross-module dependencies, certification triggers, production readiness windows, and external commitments. - Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Certification, Software, and Operations to sequence work realistically and prevent conflicting or obsolete configurations from reaching implementation or external commitment. - Establish and operate lightweight program-management mechanisms, including project scoping and tracking, status cadences, stakeholder reporting, decision logs, escalation routines, and cross-functional follow-up. - Coordinate with peer program managers and functional owners to define durable working agreements across Engineering, Software, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Operations. - Drive crisp cross-functional decision-making by presenting options, tradeoffs, risk, and recommended paths with sufficient technical and operational context. - Follow through beyond program reviews and written communications to verify that decisions are understood, adopted, and executed by the teams responsible for implementation. - Maintain strong connection to manufacturing…