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Senior Technical Program Manager, Release, Mission Autonomy

Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Mission Autonomy Engineering : Program Management
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee the software release lifecycle within Air Dominance & Strike, partnering with engineering leadership to ensure on-time, high-quality software releases in mission-critical environments.

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software development environments
  • Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
  • 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

Skills

Required:Release managementSoftware development lifecycle
Nice to have:CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

  • comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers; part of total compensation package
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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