# Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced Targeting Systems

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000-$198,000 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're seeking a Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager to drive the design, development, and production scaling of our Advanced Targeting System,a rugged, mission-critical product that fuses sensing, optics, weapon integration, and connected battlefield data to deliver decisive advantage to the warfighter.

## Responsibilities

- Program Management: Align roadmaps, manage timelines, and allocate resources across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and optics teams while balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment.

- Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary liaison between engineering, manufacturing, product, and external stakeholders,including defense contractors and government entities.

- Technical Leadership: Navigate the architecture and trade-offs of ruggedized targeting systems,LiDAR, weapon mounts, power, thermal, and embedded electronics,while ensuring compliance with ITAR, RMF, and other regulations.

- Production & Design Evolution: Drive the transition from prototype to production, owning the CAD-to-prototype-to-production cadence and championing DFM/DFA, qualification testing, and configuration/change management.

- Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate technical, schedule, supply chain, and compliance risks, adjusting plans to maintain momentum.

- Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with suppliers, customers, and government agencies; deliver clear program updates and technical briefs to internal and external audiences.

- Knowledge Capture & Process Improvement: Document tribal knowledge, close design gaps, and build repeatable processes that yield production-quality deliverables.

- Warfighter Engagement: Travel to exercises and live-fire assessments to gather operator feedback and translate it into program requirements.

## Required Qualifications

- 6+ years managing complex hardware development programs across the full development lifecycle

- 8+ years combined experience as a TPM, Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in commercial tech or aerospace & defense

- Hands-on experience leading ruggedized electromechanical systems,ideally targeting, sensing, optics, or weapon-integrated platforms

- Strong technical fluency across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, with the ability to manage trade-offs across a complex system

- Experience owning a complex BOM, engineering drawings, and change management within a PLM tool

- Proven experience in component sourcing, vendor management, and DFM/DFA coordination with manufacturing partners

- Exceptional communication skills, able to translate technical complexity into business-impacting insights

- Willingness to travel up to 25%, including to field exercises and customer sites

- U.S. Person status required (export-controlled data)

## Preferred Qualifications

- Defense or ruggedized systems background (shock, vibration, environmental sealing)

- Experience with small arms components, weapon-mounted electronics, or fire control systems

- Familiarity with LiDAR, imaging (low-light/night vision), sensor fusion, or multi-modal sensing architectures

- Experience scaling hardware to medium- or high-volume production (100s of units or more)

- Comfort with formal change management and multiple product configurations

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes (machining, sheet metal, composites, injection molding, 3D printing)

- Ability to create clarity from ambiguity in minimally structured environments

- Familiarity with defense industry compliance and reporting (ITAR, RMF)

- Advanced Degree in an Engineering discipline

- Active Top Secret clearance or ability to obtain one

## Skills

### Required
- Program Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Technical Leadership
- Production & Design Evolution
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Knowledge Capture & Process Improvement
- Warfighter Engagement
- Ruggedized Electromechanical Systems
- Component Sourcing
- Vendor Management
- DFM/DFA Coordination

### Nice to have
- Defense or Ruggedized Systems
- Small Arms Components
- Weapon-Mounted Electronics
- Fire Control Systems
- LiDAR
- Imaging
- Sensor Fusion
- Multi-Modal Sensing Architectures
- Hardware Scaling
- Formal Change Management
- Manufacturing Processes
- Advanced Degree in Engineering

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