Technical Product Manager – Spectrum Dominance Product Portfolio

Job Description

Technical Product Manager – (Spectrum Dominance) | Motorola Solutions

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Motorola Solutions, located in Irvine, CA, with one day reporting to West Los Angeles HQ. Motorola Solutions builds and connects technologies to help keep people safer, fostering collaboration for safer communities, schools, hospitals, businesses, and nations. This role is crucial for developing advanced mesh network technology, ensuring mission-critical communications for defense, law enforcement, and public safety agencies. This position directly contributes to “Keeping Our Heroes Connected” by advancing spectrum dominance capabilities.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Irvine, CA
• Pay: $180000–$220000 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Director of Product Management on the Product team
• Mission: Translate complex mathematical algorithms and signal processing research into actionable software features, firmware builds, and intuitive operator experiences to ensure robust software-defined spectrum dominance.
• Tech Stack: Jira

What You’ll Actually Do
• Define Product Requirements: Translate abstract DoD mission requirements, mathematical signal analysis, and electromagnetic spectrum operations needs into structured user stories and technical specifications.
• Translate Algorithms to Features: Directly partner with R&D engineering to transform complex LPI/LPD and anti-jamming techniques into clear features with intuitive operator experiences.
• Own Product Backlog: Manage the end-to-end software and firmware backlog, defining requirements and user experience for spectrum dominance features.
• Drive Agile Cadence: Conduct disciplined sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release cadences via Jira to ensure a predictable and rapid delivery pipeline of software and firmware updates.
• Integrate Feedback: Systematically capture operational feedback, field trial results, and operator testing notes to continuously evolve backlog user stories and transform field-tested waveforms into robust commercial software solutions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, RF Engineering, or a highly related technical discipline, with a focus on product management or systems engineering within defense, aerospace, or wireless communications.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of technical product management or systems engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to translate highly complex mathematical algorithms, scientific concepts, or military use cases into structured, clear, and actionable software requirements and user stories.
• Skills: Strong working knowledge of signal processing, wireless communications, RF systems, software-defined radios (SDRs), digital signal processing (DSP), or mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); proven ability to influence and align cross-functional R&D, engineering, operations, and sales teams without direct authority; and an active U.S. Government SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain one within 15 months of hire.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with Low Probability of Intercept / Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD), electronic counter-countermeasures, anti-jamming, or spectrum monitoring solutions; familiarity with passive RF sensing, spectral analysis, Direction Finding, Angle of Arrival localization, or tactical signal intelligence systems; understanding of government compliance targets, military environmental standards (MIL-STD), or security certifications; or a Master’s degree in Engineering, RF Engineering, Computer Science, or an MBA.