Senior Technical Program Manager, Pes

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Tactical Recon & Strike

The Senior Technical Program Manager, PES role at Anduril Industries focuses on defining software roadmaps, driving program execution, and managing cross-team projects for defense technology products, particularly aerial small drones. The role requires strong project management skills, experience in autonomous systems or robotics, and the ability to partner with engineering and product leaders to ensure successful delivery of capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the software roadmap for core TRS Products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius.
  2. Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, the program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.
  3. Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of software and hardware, from full-software and hardware-in-the-loop simulations at Anduril HQ to flight test events and demonstrations at test sites.
  4. Demonstrate extreme ownership of all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers and product leaders.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment
  • Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks
  • Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams
  • Strong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Strong familiarity with robotics or computer vision systems and their architecture
  • Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from ground up
  • Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
  • Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
  • Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders
  • Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
  • Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence
  • Professional certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GIAC-PEN, Prosci, SAFe or PMP
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.