# Program Chief Engineer

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

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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 Program Chief Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. This role provides an opportunity for immediate impact on real-world operations. Our focus is on creating groundbreaking technology that operators need and trust, and all your work will feed into this.

### Responsibilities

- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.

- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, drive product development through operational learnings and data, own the technical narrative from product deliver through continuous improvements.

- Tactical Execution: Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery.

- Strategic Planning: Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion.

- Execute Autonomously: Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.

- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.

- Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.

### Requirements

- Minimum of 4+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.

- Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains.

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

- Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.

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

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

- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Must be able to obtain a minimum Secret Clearance.

- Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.

### Preferred Qualifications

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

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

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

- Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.

- Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence.

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline.

### Benefits

- Competitive salary: $129,000-$171,000 USD

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

- Income protection: life and disability insurance

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans

- Family planning and parenting support

- Mental health resources

- Professional development: annual reimbursement

- Commuter benefits

- Retirement savings plan

## Skills

### Required
- autonomous systems
- robotics
- software development
- systems engineering
- client-facing technical program management

### Nice to have
- JIRA
- Confluence
- data analysis
- quantitative skills
- organizational process changes

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