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Release Manager, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Software Engineering
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Irvine, California$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Release Manager for the Anduril Air Defense team, responsible for defining and managing major software releases aligned with program milestones, delivering production-quality software for safety and mission-critical systems across multiple product variants.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with System Engineers and Product teams to translate software requirements into release plans and deliverables.
  • Ensure timely delivery of software releases artifacts including any supporting documentation.
  • Continuously improve the processes in support of release and quality improvement.
  • Manage and coordinate the deployment of development releases to test and evaluation teams for validation.
  • Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in an established continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment.
  • Utilize Git and CI automations to execute nightly and automated builds and system checks.
  • Define and develop software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) tests to validate system-level performance and assure system quality.

Qualifications

  • Experience owning a software release process.
  • Experience with software build automation tooling such as GitHub, CircleCI, and other DevOps relevant tools.
  • Proven track record of managing the deployment of production software and interacting with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong coding skills and a background in applying automated test coverage infrastructure (on-device and in the cloud).
  • Past experience in at least one of C++, Rust, or Go, and proficiency in Python and Bash / Command Line scripting.
  • Familiarity with the Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), (e.g., MIL-STD-882 for System Safety Engineering, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), DevSecOps best practices for continuous ATO).
  • Ability to present strategic, technical, and operational updates to stakeholders at all levels
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.
  • Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance.

Skills

Required:Software release managementBuild automation toolingCI/CD pipelinesProgramming/scriptingDoD SDLC familiarity

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees included in compensation package.
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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