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Job Summary:
Mile 2 is a mission-driven government contractor focused on advancing human-machine teaming for the U.S. Department of War. They are seeking a Chief Technology Officer who will be responsible for the technical vision, engineering execution, and innovation strategy, while leading a talented technical team to deliver solutions that integrate AI and human factors.
Responsibilities:
• Define and own Mile 2’s technology strategy, roadmap, and architecture standards across all programs and internal initiatives.
• Champion human-machine teaming principles throughout the software development lifecycle — ensuring technology decisions are grounded in how real users think, decide, and act.
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging technologies including AI/ML, large language models, computer vision, and autonomous systems in the context of DoW use cases.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth and credibility to review architectures, guide technical tradeoffs, mentor engineering leadership, and engage deeply in solution strategy when required.
• Lead the strategic technical direction for integrated systems, specifically overseeing the convergence of custom software with hardware and embedded electronics for mission-critical environments.
• Provide executive oversight for the full product development lifecycle of both cloud-native applications and edge-computing devices.
• Establish and govern enterprise architecture standards, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reuse across all programs and product lines.
• Define and steward reusable technical frameworks, shared capabilities, and a productization strategy that evolves one-off program work into sustainable mission systems.
• Align the capability roadmap with corporate growth priorities and prioritize technical investments (IRAD/R&D, infrastructure, tooling) against business outcomes.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices: code quality, DevSecOps pipelines, testing frameworks, and documentation standards appropriate for classified and unclassified environments.
• Oversee technical delivery across active contracts, ensuring teams meet performance, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Drive technical risk identification and mitigation across the portfolio.
• Establish enterprise technical governance and standardize engineering processes and frameworks to improve delivery consistency across programs.
• Reduce duplicate technical efforts and increase technical reuse across programs and business units.
• Strengthen transition-to-production pathways and support scalable sustainment models for fielded systems.
• Scale the engineering organization in step with company growth, maturing operations, hiring pipelines, and leadership bench depth.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to DoW customers — translating complex mission problems into actionable software solutions.
• Partner with Growth to lead technical volumes in proposal efforts, including architecting technical approaches and estimating level of effort.
• Represent Mile 2’s capabilities at customer briefings, conferences, and inter-agency engagements.
• Build and sustain relationships with DoW program offices, research labs (DARPA, AFRL), and key industry partners.
• Shape Mile 2’s technical growth strategy and align IRAD/R&D investments with emerging market and mission opportunities.
• Support strategic capture efforts as a senior technical voice — developing scalable service offerings and improving technical differentiation in competitive pursuits.
• Drive successful transition of SBIR, OTA, and prototype efforts into programs of record and enduring mission capabilities.
• Integrate user-centered design and human factors engineering into the core of MileTwo’s software development process.
• Oversee UI/UX research activities — user interviews, usability testing, cognitive task analysis — and ensure findings directly shape system design.
• Ensure that AI and automation features augment rather than replace operator decision-making, in line with DoW responsible AI principles.
• Drive adoption of iterative, design-led development practices across engineering and product teams.
• Advance Mile 2’s leadership in operational AI, trusted and explainable AI, and human-centered decision support systems for mission environments.
• Lead and mature Mile 2’s Technical Steering Group (TSG), aligning technical direction across business units and domains.
• Improve collaboration between AI/ML, platform engineering, CSE/HMT, mission applications, and delivery teams.
• Drive enterprise technical alignment and reduce siloed development efforts.
• Ensure TSG efforts support growth, delivery, capability evolution, and operational scale.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Active Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred); must be able to obtain and maintain clearance appropriate to contract requirements.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role (CTO, VP Engineering, Chief Architect, or equivalent).
• Proven track record leading engineering teams across diverse disciplines, including software, firmware, and electronic systems integration.
• Demonstrated experience delivering open-standards-based software solutions for DoW or other federal government customers.
• Deep proficiency in modern software engineering practices: open standards and open-architecture design, cloud-native development (GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and agile/DevSecOps methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML integration in production systems — NLP, computer vision, decision-support, or reinforcement learning applications.
• Strong command of user-centered design principles and experience working alongside UI/UX researchers and designers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior government officials.
• Experience supporting capture and proposal strategy, technical solutioning, customer engagement, and technical growth planning.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations, maturing technical operations, standardizing delivery frameworks, and operationalizing technical governance.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning R&D, SBIR, or prototype technologies into scalable operational environments.
• Experience with edge/disconnected environments, DDIL operations, secure mission systems, and/or operational deployment realities.
Preferred:
• Experience with cognitive systems engineering, human-machine teaming, human factors engineering, or human-autonomy interaction research.
• Familiarity with DoW acquisition frameworks: JCIDS, DAS, Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP), or Other Transaction Authority (OTA).
• Experience with RDT&E programs, SBIR/STTR, or rapid prototyping efforts.
• Background in cognitive science, human factors, software engineering, or applied AI research.
• Prior military service or deep operational understanding of warfighter workflows.
• Experience growing and leading engineering organizations of 10–100 people.
• Familiarity with DoW zero trust architecture, RMF/ATO processes, and cross-domain solutions.
• Zero Trust Architecture and modern platform engineering (Kubernetes, service mesh, GitOps).
• Experience delivering secure cloud mission systems and supporting edge/disconnected operations.
• Familiarity with AI governance and explainable AI frameworks.
• Experience scaling small-to-mid-size GovCon organizations.
Company:
Mile Two specializes in data visualization, software engineering, human-computer interaction, web apps, mobile apps & cloud-based services. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Dayton, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.