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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional execution across a portfolio of warhead-development programs within the Lethality Team. You will serve as the primary interface between the Energetics Team and Anduril vehicle programs, translating evolving requirements, schedules, quantities, and priorities into clear, executable plans.
You will own the program structure that enables engineers to focus on technical work: aligning stakeholders, maintaining integrated schedules, tracking requirements and dependencies, surfacing risks early, and driving decisions to closure. Your programs may range from early concepts seeking funding to mature products preparing to deliver thousands of units.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead program execution across multiple warhead-development efforts, from early concept and prototype work through testing and production transition.
- Build and maintain integrated plans connecting scope, schedules, requirements, resources, costs, technical dependencies, risks, and decision points.
- Serve as the primary program interface between the Energetics Team and vehicle teams, aligning deliverables, timelines, quantities, and change impacts.
- Track requirements across platform and warhead teams, identify gaps or conflicts, and drive timely resolution.
- Translate evolving technical work into clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and commitments for stakeholders.
- Anticipate hardware-development constraints—supplier lead times, fabrication, inspection, integration, test readiness, production capacity—and incorporate them into realistic schedules.
- Keep rapid prototypes and risk-reduction testing connected to defined program questions, milestones, and product outcomes.
- Partner with engineering, Product, Test and Evaluation, Safety, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, 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 clear 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.
- Help establish practical program-management methods for the growing Energetics portfolio and mentor less-experienced program leaders.
This is a hardware-focused role for someone who understands how design, procurement, fabrication, integration, testing, and production depend on one another. You do not need to be a warhead designer, but you need the technical judgment to ask the right questions, recognize downstream consequences, and keep multiple teams moving toward a shared outcome.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years leading complex hardware-development programs or major workstreams through multiple lifecycle stages (concept development, prototyping, procurement, fabrication, integration, testing, production).
- Experience coordinating several concurrent programs, stakeholder groups, or subsystem teams in a fast-moving R&D or new-product-development environment.
- Working knowledge of hardware-development and manufacturing timelines, with 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.
PREFERRED 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 R&D 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.
