Technical Project Manager

WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP DETAILS Preferred starting date: ASAP Weekly availability: Full-time, 40 hours per week Location: Delft, the Netherlands ABOUT FIDUCIAL Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up with big ambitions at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. Our core expertise lies in 3D vision and graphics technologies which we deploy in a dual-use context for inspection and defence. This role will focus mainly on defence context where we are developing on-board UAV situational-awareness software, with some involvement in industrial 3D visualization for aerospace sector. Our defence solutions are aimed to operate with low-cost and widely available sensors and compute. From there, we plan to develop a line-up of interconnected solutions to safeguard European safety. Our team consists of engineers that are passionate about the technology and solutions they develop. The only time most of us are not thinking about the technology is when we are asleep, and sometimes even then. Our team members have a background in different fields such as Aerospace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Robotics and Computer Graphics. Our office is located in the Aerospace Innovation Hub, a start-up hub located on the TU Delft campus in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering. We work closely with top-tier partners, ranging from government agencies and prime contractors to academic research institutes and other start-ups. Our projects span from large tender orders in collaboration with partners to low TRL research with government agencies. Whether through formal R&D programs or rapid prototyping tracks, we operate at the intersection of innovation and deployment. YOUR ROLE As Technical Project Manager, you will help strengthen how Fiducial plans, governs, and delivers technical projects across the company. You will work across a varied portfolio that includes new product development, product roadmap implementation, customer demonstrations, customer deployments, system integrations, R&D programmes, internal capability development, and external partnerships. Depending on the needs of the organisation, you may take full ownership of a project, or provide delivery structure and governance across several related initiatives. Your role combines hands-on project delivery with the continued development of our technical delivery capability. You will help refine our existing project delivery framework, improve our project governance model, run the Project Review Board, and contribute to building a pool of Technical Project Managers and project support professionals as the company grows. You will work closely with engineering, product, operations, commercial teams, leadership, customers, and external integration partners. You will also work in support of our Technical Program Manager, who oversees the wider customer project portfolio. You will report directly to the COO. WHAT YOU WILL DO DELIVER TECHNICAL PROJECTS - Lead technical projects across product development, product roadmap implementation, customer demonstrations, deployments, system integrations, R&D, and partner-funded initiatives. - Translate objectives into clear project scope, activities, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, and delivery plans. - Adapt your level of involvement to the needs of each project, taking full ownership where required or supporting technical leads and other project owners. - Coordinate projects involving software, hardware, testing, procurement, integration, and operational deployment. - Maintain momentum, follow through on commitments, and ensure that actions are completed. COORDINATE PRODUCT AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT - Plan and coordinate internal product and prototype development activities. - Support engineering teams in structuring roadmap implementation, development sprints, integration activities, and test cycles. - Maintain visibility of progress, blockers, technical dependencies, and required decisions…