Anduril
Senior Technical Program Manager - Lethality Team
$166K–$220K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; no alternatives stated.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
About the job
Leads cross-functional execution of warhead-development programs from early concepts and prototypes through testing, production transition, and scaled delivery.
What you'll do
- Build integrated plans covering schedules, requirements, resources, costs, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
- Coordinate the Energetics Team with vehicle, engineering, manufacturing, supply-chain, and test teams; resolve requirements and delivery conflicts.
- Surface risks, drive decisions and commitments to closure, and communicate program status and lessons learned.
What they ask for
- 8+ years leading complex hardware-development programs or major workstreams across multiple lifecycle stages.
- Experience coordinating 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, dependencies, schedules, and downstream risks.
- Ability to align technical requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables across teams without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Hardware-program experience in defense, aerospace, space systems, robotics, automotive, advanced manufacturing, consumer hardware, or another high-consequence technical environment.
- Experience with munitions, ordnance, energetics, weapons integration, or other complex electromechanical systems.
Pay
$166,000 — $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence
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