Senior Program Chief Engineer, International Programs

About the role

As a Technical Program Manager at Anduril Industries, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing strategic initiatives that enhance our autonomous systems and software solutions. Your responsibilities will involve stakeholder engagement, technical ownership, tactical execution, and strategic planning.

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 team, 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 Autonomously: 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.
• Enable Cross Team Collaboration: 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.
• Shape Growth Opportunities: 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
• Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, within foreign military sales and international engagements.
• A strong familiarity with robotics, sensor integrations, or computer vision systems and their architecture preferred.
• Previous experience in a systems engineering role.
• Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
• Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
• Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from ground up.
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline.

Skills

• Technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks.
• Ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and self-direct tasks.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction.
• Experience in building programs for software and testing deliverables from ground up.
• Experience in rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
• Health, recovery, and whatever comes next support
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

Pay

$166,000—$220,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time