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Software Technical Program Manager

Anduril

Job Location:

Irvine, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 23 August 2026 (17 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 20 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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THE TEAM

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.

ABOUT THE JOB

As an Air Defense TPM you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate qualify manage and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the companys strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business lines success. You will be required to learn technical concepts and employ them quickly. You will be expected to use your technical knowledge in conjunction with your program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and deliver the best outcome for Anduril and the customer. Deploying our Air Defense capabilities requires thorough understanding of mission requirements thoughtful orchestration between Anduril teams and external stakeholders and meticulous planning in the face of ambiguity. You thrive in the unknown and create order out of the chaos.

WHAT YOULL DO

Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders external clients and industry partners to gather insights align objectives and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the primary technical liaison for the client partnering with the account lead to advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensuring their feedback directly influences the requirements generation process. Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases new capabilities and performance improvement over time.
Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance managing incident response and after-action using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement quantifying the improvements made through investment in those areas and maintaining a clear understanding of the state of the system that can be communicated to the customer.
Strategic Planning and Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans setting clear milestones and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business. Oversee the allocation of personnel budget and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Andurils engineers.
Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage unblock and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives. Collaborate closely with other partner teams such as hardware product and test operations as needed.
Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped resourced and aligned with the organizations capabilities and strategic goals.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Proven customer-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience preferably in the defense national security or aerospace domains
7 years of experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
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.
Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders across a wide range of technical comfort
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science degree in engineering computer science or related field preferred
Strong technical analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions recommendations and drive decisions
Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
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

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. Weve observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.

To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence please keep the following critical points in mind:

No Financial Requests:Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information credit card numbers or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters it will only come from an @ address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity please verify the agencys authenticity by reaching out to .
Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach:If you receive any communication that appears suspicious contains grammatical errors or makes unusual requests do not engage. Always confirm the senders email domain is @ before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud:Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril please report it immediately to. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

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