Program Manager Jobs in Kingston, MA (NOW HIRING)

As our team continues to quickly grow, we are looking for motivated candidates that are inspired to work within an extremely energetic, creative, and innovative team that is passionate about subsea robotics and exploring the open ocean. We work in a highly dynamic environment where collaboration and idea sharing are a way of life. We are seeking our next Technical Program Manager to join Anduril, working in a cutting-edge start-up environment to advance the state-of-the-possible in subsea robotics.
Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Maritime Fleet in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a Maritime TPM, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success. You will be required to learn technical concepts and employ them quickly. You will be expected to use your technical knowledge in conjunction with your program management skills to lead cross-functional efforts and deliver the best outcome for Anduril and the customer.

• Work within a team of multidisciplinary engineers and specialists throughout the life of AUV through integration, test, verification, and demonstration efforts.
• Ensure successful execution of programs in accordance with desired requirements, on schedule, and on budget.
• Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, managing incident response and after-action, using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement, quantifying the improvements made through investment in those areas, and maintaining a clear understanding of the state of the system that can be communicated to the customer.
• Project Planning: Develop project scope and manage changes through the life of the project. Identify, track, and manage project risks. Generate and maintain project schedules.
• Contract Management: Provide contract management support including statements of work, change orders, financial management, terms and conditions, data rights assertions, etc. Manage deliverables, including routine status updates and final delivery to the customer.
• Autonomous Execution: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Anduril's engineers.
• Customer Engagement: Interface with international customers and be able to represent the technical aspects of the Maritime portfolio. Serve as the "voice of the customer" for follow-on business capture efforts and activities.
• Test Event Execution: Support the Engineering team in integration, testing, and debug in a high-paced environment. Lead formal testing efforts by generating test plans, identifying resources needed, and supporting mobilization logistics. Lead offshore AUV test events when required (typically multiple-day test events with occasional multiple -week deployments)
• Regular international travel to support customer meetings and testing approximately 25%-40% of the time.

• Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering or related field and a passion for hardware development.
• 7+ years of robotics experience, specifically in technical project management and/or systems engineering, or related project management and/or systems engineering experience in a relevant industry.
• Must be able to conduct system test, integration and troubleshooting
• Experience leading or executing product development of any type of system from TRL 3-8.
• Understanding of government contract structure and reporting.
• Extremely organized and detail oriented.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

• Experience operating robotic systems offshore.
• Experience integrating subsea sensors.
• Experience with government acquisition and reporting processes and government contracts.
• Experience interfacing with global customers.