# Program Manager, Mission Autonomy

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**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 are seeking a highly motivated Program Manager (PM) to oversee the software release lifecycle and development process within the Mission Autonomy division to support autonomous flight initiatives.

## Responsibilities

- Own the Autonomy Roadmap: You will own the end-to-end scope, schedule, budget, resource allocation, and execution of the roadmap for strategic, customer-facing autonomy deployments.

- Lead Test & Evaluation Strategy: Develop and execute team-controlled test environments and test infrastructure. Partner with Test & Evaluation (T&E) teams to coordinate real-world flight testing.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, hardware engineers, chief engineers, program managers, business operations, and finance.

- Facilitate Technical Decisions: Develop deep technical fluency in vehicle systems to facilitate architectural discussions and drive team consensus.

- Unblock the Engineering Team: Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk, and clear administrative and logistical hurdles.

- Strategic Capture: Manage capture programs by identifying opportunities and developing a winning strategy.

- Report to Leadership: Provide clear, data-driven status updates and risk assessments to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

## Requirements

- Technical Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.

- Proven PM Experience: 4+ years of technical program management, product management, or engineering leadership experience in the aerospace, defense, autonomous systems industries, or relevant industry.

- Bias for Action: Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environment.

- Travel: Ability to travel up to 50% to operations sites and test ranges.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.

- Autonomy Expertise: Experience with autonomous command and control (C2), collaborative autonomy, or AI/ML-driven decision-making systems.

- Flight Test Experience: Direct hands-on experience planning, executing, and analyzing flight tests for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).

- Pilot or Operator Experience: Experience as a rated pilot (manned) or UAS operator (Group 3-5).

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Technical Program Management
- Product Management
- Engineering Leadership

### Nice to have
- Autonomous Command and Control
- Collaborative Autonomy
- AI/ML-driven Decision-Making Systems
- Flight Test Planning
- Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Pilot or Operator Experience

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