Staff Technical Program Manager, Production
About the team
The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril's fastest growing, most technically complex divisions. We develop and build collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons. We are scaling production of a first-of-kind autonomous aircraft at Arsenal 1 in Ohio at a pace the defense industry has never attempted.
About the job
There is no inherited system. You define how schedule, cost, and supply chain risk are tracked, acted on, and reported for a first-of-kind weapons system. When production stalls, you diagnose why, build the right people into the room, and drive the resolution. You do not run production operations. You own whether production delivers on cost, on schedule, and on trajectory.
Required qualifications
- 6-8+ years managing complex technical hardware programs through development and production lifecycle
- Demonstrated ownership of schedule and cost performance on programs with aggressive timelines and rapid scale
- Technical depth in hardware systems sufficient to challenge engineering assumptions and assess production risk
- Experience building program management systems from scratch in environments without established playbooks
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional decisions without direct authority across engineering, supply chain, and production
- Comfortable building or interpreting quantitative models to inform program decisions
- Familiar with version control, scripting, scalable workflows, and reproducible analysis practices
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Leverage lean six sigma certification or equivalent demonstrated application of structured problem solving and process improvement methodologies in production environments
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or autonomous systems production environments
- Proficiency with data tools such as Palantir Foundry, discrete event simulation, or custom analytics stacks
- Background in trade studies, causal modeling, or sensitivity analysis applied to production decisions
- Experience interfacing with government customers (DCMA, USAF) on program status and delivery
- Experience scaling production operations from prototype to rate in a high-complexity manufacturing environment
Pay
US Salary Range
$191,000 - $253,000 USD
Benefits
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