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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Program Engineer role involves engaging with stakeholders, driving technical outcomes, and executing strategic plans to support the development of autonomous systems for air defense.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensure their feedback directly influences the engineering roadmap.
• Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases, new capabilities, and performance improvement over time.
• 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.
• Credibly represent our system in front of technical and nontechnical clients.
• Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery.
• Whether through sprint planning and execution or on-the-ground support of test events, attack blockers and guide the team through fast-paced execution to deliver the optimal technical outcome for the client.
• Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business.
• Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
• When possible, lead with data.
• Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients.
• Seize the opportunity to shape requirements in favor of the optimal product for the client and the company.
• Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work.
• Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
• Collaborate closely and even embed within partner teams, such as hardware, software, test, and field operations as needed.
• 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.
• Drive the alignment of the technical roadmap with the strategic vision.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Lead Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a strong, instinctual understanding of configuration management principles.
• Extensive experience in configuration and release management, including managing Change Control Boards (CCBs) and implementing effective versioning strategies.
• Proven ability to translate complex, real-world operational challenges ('pain points') into crisp, actionable technical requirements and clear acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated expertise in triaging and prioritizing large issue lists, with a focus on ruthlessly identifying and driving closure for P0s and items with the highest operational impact, ensuring clear ownership.
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
• Hands-on experience operationalizing observability for critical systems.
• In-depth experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authority To Operate (ATO) processes, including the ability to drive the creation and management of System Security Plans (SSPs) and Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms).
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort.
• Proficiency in evidence collection for security controls and the implementation of robust operational security procedures.
• 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:
• 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.
• Foundational knowledge of secure network and systems fundamentals.
• Familiarity with infrastructure fundamentals, including server/VM/container stacks, imaging processes, and system hardening techniques.
• 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.
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.