Technical Program Manager

Irvine, California, United States;
Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

As a Software Technical Program Manager on the Air Defense Engineering Team you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently. You will be owning the operational aspects of a large engineering team and partnering with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output, and ensure overall execution towards business goals.

• Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• 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
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to 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 and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.
• Partner with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Support leads with quarterly and ongoing staffing plans across the organization, particularly where difficult prioritization conflicts exist.
• Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• 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.

• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in a software development environment.
• 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 process and organization…