Senior Software Product Manager, Strategic Defense

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