Product Manager

Product Manager

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments.

The Role

We are hiring a Product Manager to lead core services within ATARS — the foundation that makes the entire system possible. This includes diagnostics, networking and multiplayer synchronization, the render pipeline, and underlying physics models. You will partner with a Senior Product Manager who owns the overall ATARS program, ensuring that your domain integrates seamlessly with avionics, hardware, and user-facing applications.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role: you'll work side by side with engineers, designers, pilots, and defense stakeholders to translate mission needs into the technical backbone of the world's first combat-ready AR platform.

What You'll Do

• Own Core Services: Drive the roadmap for ATARS foundational systems — diagnostics, multiplayer networking, render pipeline, and physics — ensuring they are robust, scalable, and combat training-ready.

• Bridge Disciplines: Collaborate across hardware, software, optics, and design teams to integrate core services into a seamless system-of-systems product.

• Simulation & Rendering Leadership: Partner with engineers to prioritize fidelity in physics models, rendering pipelines, and multiplayer synchronization.

• Workflow & Reliability: Ensure that pilots, instructors, and test teams experience stable, intuitive, and operationally relevant workflows built on top of your services.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Translate pilot, instructor, and DoD program manager feedback into actionable requirements for your domain.

• Agile Delivery: Drive iterative development, testing, and demo readiness, with rapid feedback cycles from flights and simulations.

• Operational Support: Contribute to demo planning, diagnostics workflows, and field exercises, ensuring your core services perform under real-world conditions.

Required Qualifications

• Proven track record (5–7 years or equivalent impact) in product management for complex, hardware-integrated or simulation-heavy software products.

• Strong technical fluency in at least one of the following: real-time networking/multiplayer systems, game/render pipelines, physics engines, or diagnostics/observability tools.

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with UX/design teams on workflows, while grounding decisions in system reliability and performance.

• Proven ability to prioritize tradeoffs across engineering, design, and operational stakeholders in high-stakes environments.

• Experience integrating emerging AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or domain-specific AI platforms) into workflows for faster requirements gathering, research, or documentation.

• Qualified candidates must have the ability to obtain a security clearance. This requires U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in defense, aerospace, or AR/VR/XR simulation domains where system reliability and safety are non-negotiable.

• Familiarity with low-latency networking, RF systems, multiplayer synchronization, and distributed simulation frameworks.

• Exposure to rendering pipelines, physics-based simulation, or performance tuning for real-time systems.

• Experience with diagnostics, logging, and resilience tooling in mission-critical products.

• Background working with pilot training workflows, aircrew systems, or AFE integration.

• Hands-on experience with Figma, storyboarding, or prototyping tools for expressing system workflows and pilot-facing UX.

Full-Time Employee Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision (100% coverage for Employees)

• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, paid holidays, and parental leave

• Short and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Voluntary Worksite Benefits (Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity)

Red 6 reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Red 6 has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications, and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

Red Six Aerospace, Inc, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.