Release Manager, Air Defense

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 real‑time, 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 UAS threats.

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

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced SW Release Manager. In this critical role, you will define and manage major software releases aligned with program milestones, delivering production‑quality software for safety and mission‑critical systems across multiple product variants. You will be instrumental in ensuring timely, secure, and reliable software delivery to our customers and warfighters.

• Work closely with System Engineers and Product teams to translate software requirements into release plans and deliverables.
• Ensure timely delivery of software releases artifacts including any supporting documentation.
• Continuously improve the processes in support of release and quality improvement.
• Manage and coordinate the deployment of development releases to test and evaluation teams for validation.
• Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in an established continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment.
• Utilize Git and CI automations to execute nightly and automated builds and system checks.
• Define and develop software‑in‑the‑loop (SITL) and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HITL) tests to validate system‑level performance and assure system quality.

• Experience owning a software release process.
• Experience with software build automation tooling such as Git Hub, CircleCI, and other Dev Ops relevant tools.
• Proven track record of managing the deployment of production software and interacting with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong coding skills and a background in applying automated test coverage infrastructure (on‑device and in the cloud).
• Past experience in at least one of C++, Rust, or Go, and proficiency in Python and Bash / Command Line scripting.
• Familiarity with the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), (e.g., MIL-STD-882 for System Safety Engineering, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), Dev Sec Ops  best practices for continuous ATO).
• Ability to present strategic, technical, and operational updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export‑controlled data.
• Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Nix/NixOS.
• Proven experience in an Engineering role, demonstrating leadership and innovation.
• Experience with both edge and cloud deployments.
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks in software‑in‑the‑loop (SITL) and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HITL) environments.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Unix/Linux tools for performance analysis and debugging problems…