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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company brings 21st-century innovation to the defense industry, designing and building military systems powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that integrates thousands of data streams into real-time 3D command and control centers.
You will own programme execution for the Dive-XL Autonomous Underwater Vehicle system as it transitions from development into production, reporting to the Director of Platforms. This role combines rigorous programme management with genuine technical depth—you will engage substantively on system architecture, interfaces, and verification approaches alongside engineering discipline leads.
Key responsibilities include:
• Own end-to-end programme planning: scoping, sequencing, dependency mapping, risk identification, and driving decisions when requirements, timelines, or resourcing conflict.
• Stand up and run scaled agile delivery across the vehicle programme, coordinating planning increments and cross-team dependencies across approximately 100 engineers spanning multiple agile teams. Own the rhythm of PI planning, backlog alignment, system demos, and inspect-and-adapt events to ensure the cadence drives decisions rather than generating ceremony.
• Implement and maintain robust project management methodologies and best practices, driving predictability and accountability across the programme.
• Proactively identify and mitigate programme risks and challenges, developing mitigation plans alongside the engineers executing them.
• Engage with the technical substance of the programme—architecture, requirements baselines, interfaces, and verification approach—to catch problems early rather than simply track status.
• Partner with discipline leads as a technical peer, pressure-testing estimates and identifying missing scope before schedule or resourcing decisions are made.
• Translate system-level requirements and subsystem dependencies into a sequenced plan reflecting how the vehicle is actually integrated and tested.
• Manage interfaces and dependencies across production, supply chain, and test, driving resolution where subsystem plans conflict.
• Lead re-planning as priorities shift and communicate changes and their technical consequences clearly.
• Own the technical narrative in design review gates, milestone reviews, and executive updates.
The Dive-XL programme is designed, built, and tested in Australia and is executing against live contracts. The XL Vehicle System team owns the vehicle end-to-end—systems, software, mechanical, electrical, and integration and test.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Demonstrated systems engineering capability: requirements decomposition, interface management and ICDs, subsystem trade studies, verification and validation, and requirements traceability across complex systems.
• Technical depth sufficient to engage as a peer with engineers rather than only track their status—able to follow architecture discussions, question estimates, and understand downstream effects of design decisions.
• Delivery experience across both hardware and software: you have owned the plan for a complex product where mechanical, electrical, and software work had to converge, and have shipped software as part of that scope.
• Hands-on experience running scaled agile delivery across a programme of multiple agile teams, including standing up planning increments, managing cross-team dependencies in Jira, and facilitating events (planning, sync, demo, retrospective) that keep teams aligned. Not just familiarity—you have been the person making the system work.
• Experience in a rapidly iterating test environment with close hardware and software integration.
