Senior Technical Program Manager
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 166,000-220,000 · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 166,000-220,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional execution across a portfolio of warhead-development programs.
- You will connect the Energetics Team with vehicle programs and translate changing requirements, schedules, quantities, and priorities into clear and executable plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead program execution across multiple warhead-development efforts, from early concept and prototype work through testing and production transition.
- Build and maintain integrated plans that connect scope, schedules, requirements, resources, costs, technical dependencies, risks, and decision points.
- Serve as the primary program interface between the Energetics Team and Anduril vehicle teams, aligning what must be delivered, when it is needed, how many units are required, and what changes affect the plan.
- Track requirements across platform and warhead teams, identify gaps or conflicts, and drive the right owners toward timely resolution.
- Translate evolving technical work into clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and commitments for engineering and program stakeholders.
- Anticipate hardware-development constraints—including supplier lead times, fabrication, inspection, integration, test readiness, and production capacity—and incorporate them into realistic schedules.
- Keep rapid prototypes and risk-reduction testing connected to defined program questions, delivery milestones, and broader product outcomes.
- Partner with engineering, Product, Test and Evaluation, Safety, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Production, and program teams to resolve dependencies and maintain alignment.
- Surface schedule, resource, requirements, and execution risks early; frame options and drive decisions before they become delivery failures.
- Create clear program communications, engineering documentation, schedules, cost estimates, risk summaries, and decision records for technical and nontechnical audiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience leading complex hardware-development programs or major workstreams through multiple lifecycle stages, such as concept development, prototyping, procurement, fabrication, integration, testing, or production.
- Experience coordinating several concurrent programs, stakeholder groups, or subsystem teams in a fast-moving R&D or new-product-development environment.
- Working knowledge of hardware-development and manufacturing timelines, with the ability to identify dependencies, build credible schedules, and anticipate downstream risks.
- Experience aligning technical requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables across teams without relying on direct authority.
- Evidence of bringing structure to ambiguous programs, adapting the level of process to the work, and driving decisions and commitments to closure.
- Ability to communicate technical and program information clearly through written updates, visual plans, reviews, and direct stakeholder conversations.
- Experience preparing engineering or program documentation, project schedules, and cost estimates.
- Ability to travel for program reviews, testing, and customer or partner meetings, including surges up to 25%.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading hardware programs in defense, aerospace, space systems, robotics, automotive, advanced manufacturing, consumer hardware, or another high-consequence technical environment.
- Experience supporting munitions, ordnance, energetics, weapons integration, or other complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience managing programs across the full lifecycle, from early R&D through production readiness or scaled delivery.
- Familiarity with requirements tracking, configuration or change management, verification planning, and risk-reduction testing.
- Experience working with suppliers, long-lead hardware, manufacturing constraints, and production ramp decisions.
- Active U.S. security clearance, including DoD Secret or Top Secret, or DOE L or Q.
- Familiarity with Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar planning and collaboration tools.
Skills
- Jira
- Microsoft Project
- Confluence
