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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Senior Technical Program Manager - Lethality Team

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience leading complex hardware-development programs or major workstreams through multiple lifecycle stages, such as concept development, prototyping, procurement, fabrication, integration, testing, or production.
  • Experience coordinating several concurrent programs, stakeholder groups, or subsystem teams in a fast-moving research and development or new-product-development environment.
  • Working knowledge of hardware-development and manufacturing timelines, with the ability to identify dependencies, build credible schedules, and anticipate downstream risks.
  • Experience aligning technical requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables across teams without relying on direct authority.
  • Evidence of bringing structure to ambiguous programs, adapting the level of process to the work, and driving decisions and commitments to closure.
  • Ability to communicate technical and program information clearly through written updates, visual plans, reviews, and direct stakeholder conversations.
  • Experience preparing engineering or program documentation, project schedules, and cost estimates.
  • Ability to travel for program reviews, testing, and customer or partner meetings, including surges up to 25%.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead program execution across multiple warhead-development efforts, from early concept and prototype work through testing and production transition.
  • Build and maintain integrated plans that connect scope, schedules, requirements, resources, costs, technical dependencies, risks, and decision points.
  • Serve as the primary program interface between the Energetics Team and Anduril vehicle teams, aligning required deliverables, timing, unit quantities, and changes affecting the plan.
  • Track requirements across platform and warhead teams, identify gaps or conflicts, and drive the appropriate owners toward timely resolution.
  • Translate evolving technical work into clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and commitments for engineering and program stakeholders.
  • Anticipate hardware-development constraints, including supplier lead times, fabrication, inspection, integration, test readiness, and production capacity, and incorporate them into realistic schedules.
  • Keep rapid prototypes and risk-reduction testing connected to defined program questions, delivery milestones, and broader product outcomes.
  • Partner with engineering, Product, Test and Evaluation, Safety, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Production, and program teams to resolve dependencies and maintain alignment.
  • Surface schedule, resource, requirements, and execution risks early, frame options, and drive decisions before they become delivery failures.
  • Create program communications, engineering documentation, schedules, cost estimates, risk summaries, and decision records for technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Lead post-test and post-milestone reviews that convert lessons learned into accountable actions and improved execution.
  • Help establish practical program-management methods for the growing Energetics portfolio and mentor less-experienced program leaders as the team expands.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience leading hardware programs in defense, aerospace, space systems, robotics, automotive, advanced manufacturing, consumer hardware, or another high-consequence technical environment.
  • Experience supporting munitions, ordnance, energetics, weapons integration, or other complex electromechanical systems.
  • Experience managing programs across the full lifecycle, from early research and development through production readiness or scaled delivery.
  • Familiarity with requirements tracking, configuration or change management, verification planning, and risk-reduction testing.
  • Experience working with suppliers, long-lead hardware, manufacturing constraints, and production ramp decisions.
  • Active U.S. security clearance, including DoD Secret or Top Secret, or DOE L or Q.
  • Familiarity with Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar planning and collaboration tools.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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