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Technical Program Manager, Air Defense (SIP)

Salary

$167,000-$222,000 USD per year

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Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to own engineering execution across a portfolio of concurrent counter-UAS programs.

Responsibilities

  • Integrated Engineering Schedule: Build and own one engineering schedule across every active program, tied to contract milestones, test events, and hardware lead times.
  • Milestone Review Readiness: Drive SRR, PDR, CDR, and test readiness reviews end to end.
  • Partner and Subcontractor Execution: Own the technical deliverable tracking for subcontractors and integration partners.
  • Operating Rhythm: Run the team's recurring program syncs so engineering leadership can step out of them.
  • Staffing and Allocation: Own the team's allocation picture across programs.
  • Upward and Customer Reporting: Produce the weekly program roll-up for engineering and business leadership, and support customer-facing status.
  • Proposals and Estimates: Support labor build-ups, ROMs, and schedules for new task orders.
  • Test Event Execution: Plan and coordinate logistics, people, hardware, and readiness for field and range test events.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in technical program management, systems engineering, or engineering roles on hardware/software defense, aerospace, or robotics programs
  • Proven track record running DoD-style milestone reviews (SRR/PDR/CDR/TRR) or an equivalent gated engineering process
  • Experience managing subcontractor or partner technical deliverables, including holding partners accountable to schedule and scope
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent programs or workstreams with shared people and hardware
  • Technical depth to understand system architectures, interface documents, test plans, and the software development lifecycle well enough to challenge estimates and spot risk
  • Strong written communication: you can turn a messy week into a one-page roll-up a general manager reads in two minutes
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and minimal structure; you build the process instead of waiting for one
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
  • Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

  • Active Secret or higher clearance
  • Experience with SOCOM, special operations, or other rapid-acquisition customers
  • Counter-UAS, air defense, sensors, or C2 integration experience
  • Experience supporting proposals, labor build-ups, and basis of estimates for task orders
  • Experience at a fast-moving defense or hardware startup alongside traditional primes
  • Hands-on with Jira, Confluence, Airtable, or similar tools, and the discipline to keep them accurate
  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering or technical discipline

Benefits

  • Competitive salary: $167,000-$222,000 USD
  • Comprehensive benefits package

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Secret clearance
  • SOCOM experience
  • counter-UAS experience
  • air defense experience
  • C2 integration experience
  • proposal writing
  • labor build-ups
  • basis of estimates
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Airtable

Ready to apply?

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