Technical Program Manager, Maritime

About the role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company dedicated to transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Maritime Fleet in a challenging operational environment worldwide.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Pay

US Salary Range: $166,000 - $220,000 USD