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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Technical Program Manager to join the Program Management Office in Santa Ana, CA. You will work in a startup-like environment advancing subsea robotics and maritime manufacturing technologies. This role bridges product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, requiring technical leadership to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for multiple sophisticated parallel initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
**Technical Ownership**: Drive technical outcomes through deep understanding of system performance, manage incident response and after-action reviews, use metrics to identify improvement areas, quantify improvements from investments, and maintain clear system state communication to customers.
**Project Planning**: Develop project scope, manage changes throughout the project lifecycle, identify and track risks, generate and maintain schedules, and ensure execution meets requirements, timelines, and budgets.
**New Product Integration (NPI)**: Lead NPI teams to ensure end-to-end systems integration and manufacturing readiness from development through sustained high-rate production. Design and implement standardized NPI knowledge transfer frameworks including checklists, templates, communication plans, and stage-gate reviews.
**Cross-Functional Partnership**: Embed deeply with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing teams from early development through initial production to gain expert-level product and process knowledge.
**Contract Management**: Provide contract management support including statements of work, change orders, financial management, terms and conditions, and data rights assertions. Manage deliverables and routine customer status updates.
**Autonomous Execution**: Execute autonomously on broad and ambiguous requirements from internal and external clients, demonstrate high ownership, and become a trusted partner to engineers.
You will learn technical concepts quickly and employ them alongside program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and deliver exceptional outcomes.
**Requirements:**
- 7+ years of experience in technical project management and/or systems engineering, or related project management/systems engineering experience in a relevant industry
- Demonstrated success leading NPI teams and scaling multiple complex hardware products into high-rate production
- Hands-on experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Product Data Management (PDM) software
- Proven track record using first-principles problem-solving to balance aggressive timelines, budgets, and resource allocation in fast-paced environments
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented with exceptional communication skills
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Direct experience in maritime, naval, or aerospace defense with knowledge of NAVSEA or MIL-SPEC standards
- Experience with MES and ERP systems (JIRA, Siemens NX, Teamcenter PLM, Oracle, or equivalents)
- Background in supply chain and/or procurement in high-rate production environments producing large finished electromechanical goods
- Hands-on technical credibility having personally built, debugged, or repaired hardware in production; comfortable working on the floor with technicians
- Technical foundation in mechanical assembly, electrical integration, heavy metal or composite fabrication, or precision machining
