Technical Program Manager, Release - Mission Autonomy

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) to oversee the software release lifecycle within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S).

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Release Ownership: drive the software release process from planning to testing and deployment, ensuring on-time, stable releases that meet customer requirements.
• Architect & Elevate Release Quality: define and continuously evolve quality gates, test strategies, and critical release metrics. Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure rigorous testing and embed quality at every stage of the development and release pipeline.
• Bridge Teams and Drive Execution: act as the connective tissue between engineering, test & evaluation, and program management, ensuring seamless execution across teams.
• Strategic Prioritization & Decisive Execution: establish clear frameworks for prioritization, communication, and decision-making that help teams cut through ambiguity and focus on what matters. Rapidly assess technical risks and identify critical release blockers, developing actionable plans to drive issues to resolution.
• Continuous Process Improvement: architect and champion a release management process that balances speed with stability, seeking feedback and leveraging data to implement improvements that scale.
• Transparency & Data-Driven Management: utilize and champion industry-standard program management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to track progress, manage issues, visualize key metrics, and facilitate transparent, real-time communication across stakeholders.

Requirements

• 4+ years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software development environments.
• Deep technical acumen: understand software development lifecycles, system architectures, testing methodologies, and quality assurance principles, enabling effective navigation of technical challenges and trade-offs.
• Relentless prioritization: proven ability to identify, escalate, and drive critical path issues to resolution, ensuring release integrity and timeliness.
• Exceptional communication: ability to effectively engage in technical discussions and translate technical details to diverse internal audiences.
• Data-driven & analytical mindset: comfort leveraging metrics and analytics to drive decisions, measure release health, and continuously improve quality.
• Highly organized: Able to manage concurrent priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Direct experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced software build systems in a complex, multi-component environment.
• Background in defense, hardware, autonomy, or robotics deployments, with an understanding of associated mission-critical quality standards.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive and provide strategic direction in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments with minimal oversight.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Pay

US Salary Range: $132,000 - $198,000 USD

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.