# Technical Program Manager, Small Drones

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones and equipment to test, deploy, and operate. As a Technical Program Manager, Small Drones, you will define the software roadmap for core TRS Products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius.

## Responsibilities

- Define the software roadmap for core TRS Products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius.

- Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, the program office, and third-party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously.

- Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of software and hardware.

- Demonstrate extreme ownership of all pieces of work; become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers and product leaders.

- Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments.

- Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.

- Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives.

- Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.

- Partner with engineering and product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones.

- Identify, resolve, and escalate key cross-team dependencies.

- Support leads with quarterly and ongoing staffing plans across the organization.

- Collaborate closely with other partner teams, such as hardware, product, and test operations as needed.

- Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs.

- Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress.

## Required Qualifications

- 2-5 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.

- A strong familiarity with robotics or computer vision systems and their architecture preferred.

- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks.

- Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.

- Strong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from the ground up.

- Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.

- Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.

- Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive decisions.

- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence.

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.

## Skills

### Required
- autonomous systems
- robotics
- software development
- project management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- computer vision

### Nice to have
- JIRA
- Confluence
- CISSP
- OSCP
- GIAC-PEN
- Prosci
- SAFe
- PMP

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