# Senior Software Product Manager, Strategic Defense

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Washington, District of Columbia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 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.

The Strategic Defense team at Anduril is at the forefront of incubating and maturing AI-native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain.

As a Senior Software Product Manager, Strategic Defense, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering features and services critical to the next generation of autonomous air and missile defense systems.

**Responsibilities**

- Own the product roadmap for key autonomy capabilities with attention to both backend services and interfaces supporting UI-based oversight, explainability, and control.

- Define autonomy behavior and the human-machine interfaces for it , decision authority, operator overrides, engagement constraints, and the safety and controls guardrails that govern automated decision-making.

- Support software execution for this capability in conjunction with engineering: sequence workstreams, surface and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers, track delivery against plan, and hold engineering, test, and program stakeholders accountable to schedule.

- Proactively communicate roadmaps, execution status, and goals to stakeholders and manage expectations of delivery.

- Operate as the owner of the autonomy capability area.

- Work hands-on to deliver new capabilities across the lifecycle of the product, from initial release and onboarding, through day-to-day improvements.

- Work in coordination with engineering and test stakeholders to define and monitor key metrics to measure success, including autonomy performance, safety, and controls behavior in operationally relevant conditions.

- Interview and iterate with defense operators and subject matter experts, develop insights from such interactions, and propagate user needs clearly through the organization.

- Develop relationships to bridge business and technical worlds.

**Requirements**

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (Top Secret clearance preferred)

- 3-5 years in software product management, ideally in highly technical areas which may include autonomous systems, AI/ML products, developer solutions, etc.

- Working fluency in autonomy and controls concepts , state estimation, planning, and closed-loop control , sufficient to reason about system behavior and its limits with engineers

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- A foundational understanding of back-end web technologies & distributed systems to consider capabilities and limitations

- Demonstrated aptitude for prototyping solutions, including through AI code generation

- Proven ability to decompose and organize technically complex projects in a structured approach

- Demonstrated ability to drive software execution directly , planning, dependency management, and schedule accountability

- Aptitude for working with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort

- Ability to travel for discovery and testing purposes (surges up to 50%)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Active U.S. Secret security clearance

- Hands-on experience shipping autonomous systems, robotics, guidance/navigation/control, or mission autonomy software

- Familiarity with mathematical optimization problems (e.g. assignment, resource allocation, scheduling, trajectory optimization) and the tradeoffs between optimality, runtime, and operator trust

- Experience with AI safety, assurance, or verification and validation for learning-enabled or automated decision-making systems

- Background in operations research, optimization, or applied mathematics through experience or education

- Defense, national security, or aerospace domain familiarity through experience or education

- Experience working in a developer-focused product team (for example, in cloud services, SDK development, or internal platform infrastructure)

- Experience supporting test design and execution for technically complex, combined hardware/software systems

## Skills

### Required
- autonomous systems
- AI/ML products
- software product management
- state estimation
- planning
- closed-loop control
- back-end web technologies
- distributed systems
- prototyping solutions
- AI code generation
- project management
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- robotics
- guidance/navigation/control
- mission autonomy software
- mathematical optimization
- AI safety
- assurance
- verification and validation
- operations research
- optimization
- applied mathematics
- defense
- national security
- aerospace

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