Technical Program Manager, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
WHO WE ARE:
The Maneuver Dominance (MD) Team at Anduril develops aerial robotic systems designed to operate in large coordinated teams in concert with ground maneuver forces. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost, Altius, or Roadrunner, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem. We develop perception and autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. In your role as Technical Program Manager you will be an expert on mission execution, Anduril products, and managing relationships as we seek to advance the art of possible for large drone teams.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, manage, and execute large, technical programs, from early stage design through to technology development, system integration, testing and deployment, and management of a growing engineering team.
• As a member of the MD Leadership Team, you will be expected provide meaningful insight into current and future customer needs. You will develop solutions, , provide accurate and timely accounting of resources, and ensure crips comms at all levels.
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of engineering teams and more broadly across departments.
• Build trust with Anduril teammates, vendors, partners, and potential customers, and work closely with users, vendors and government stakeholders through effective communication, positive attitude, and meticulous follow-through.
• Forge longstanding customer relationships by working closely with Anduril Growth personnel, and help establish beach heads in new areas of interest.
• Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.
• Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of software and hardware, from full-software simulations at Anduril HQ to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to both Government Partners and Anduril’s engineers
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Identify, resolve, escalate key cross team dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with other partner teams, such as hardware, product, and test operations as needed.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of Anduril systems and 3rd party platforms. In this role, you will work with engineers to connect the evolving product theses with the mission and customer requirements, taking an expansive view and developing data-backed opinions on product direction.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, Engineering or applicable discipline specific to the needs of the MD Team.
• 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer.
• Ability to lead an engineering team in the development and execution of different contracted and strategic efforts.
• Experience deploying and managing large volumes of product across challenging areas, with a specific emphasis on supply chain and logistics.
• A strong familiarity with with unmanned aircraft, autonomous systems, robotics, or related aerospace / defense technologies.
• Proven experience delivering technology to government organizations or large commercial institutions.
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong experience in project management and project management technologies (e.g. JIRA and Confluence); practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
• Must be willing to travel 25% - 50%, some international.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Significant customer-facing experience leading high profile and high stakes programs, including strong interpersonal skills and executive gravitas.
• Experience with Defense Acquisition Processes, including System Requirements Reviews, Preliminary / Critical Design Reviews, Production Readiness Reviews, etc.
• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from the ground up
• Experience with open architecture concepts & interoperability standards (e.g. STANAG 4586, OMS/UCI, FACE)
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GIAC-PEN, Prosci, SAFe or PMP