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Technical Program Manager

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Program Management
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Hybrid (London)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager to join the Maneuver Dominance - Enabling Technology team in London, responsible for end-to-end capability areas, cross-functional leadership, IRAD submissions, and coordination between UK and US teams within a defense technology context.

Responsibilities

  • Own a capability area end to end, covering charter, budget, scope, and roadmap, partnered with an Engineering Lead who serves as technical principal investigator
  • Lead a cross-functional capability team of hardware, software, and systems engineers to deliver capability that exceeds customer expectations
  • Build and defend annual internal R&D (IRAD) submissions: shape proposals, size efforts, and take them through senior leadership review, then hold each funded effort to its charter
  • Define and enforce exit criteria for each effort so that capability transitions cleanly into receiving programme teams and runs in their pipelines, rather than demonstrating once and stalling
  • Serve as the primary liaison between technical teams, programme stakeholders, and customers, and as the ET point of contact in the UK
  • Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive execution, unblock technical challenges, and accelerate cross-team and cross-site projects
  • Develop a deep understanding of mission requirements and master the technical concepts needed to identify key dependencies, trade-offs, and risks, particularly at the interfaces between mission systems, sensors, effectors, and the platforms that carry them
  • Coordinate and execute frequent test events, from hardware-in-the-loop simulation through to ground test and live flight demonstration on rotorcraft and uncrewed air systems
  • Work jointly with US teams on a shared baseline while ensuring nationally controlled elements are developed and held in country, making the call early on which elements belong where
  • Plan and integrate across system boundaries, holding schedule and interface commitments when parts of the work are not visible to the whole team
  • Proactively identify technical, programmatic, export control, and security risks, develop mitigation plans, and drive issues to resolution before they become blockers
  • Foster a culture of extreme ownership and a bias towards action within the team

Qualifications

  • BEng/BSc/MEng in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience in engineering, systems integration, or technical programme management
  • Demonstrated experience owning programme management or engineering delivery for sophisticated hardware and software systems
  • Strong technical aptitude, able to read and interrogate technical designs, understand software development lifecycles, and form an independent view of technical risk
  • Strong understanding of systems engineering, environmental considerations, and requirements verification and validation, particularly for aerospace or defence applications
  • Demonstrated experience delivering engineering work under export control and security classification, including judging what can be shared with international colleagues and what must be developed in country
  • Working knowledge of UK export control and security regimes, including the UK Military List, SPIRE and OGELs, F680, and the handling of classified and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE material
  • Proven experience delivering complex solutions in highly regulated environments, for example UK MOD
  • Ability to inspire and guide teams, build consensus, and influence without direct authority
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance to a minimum of SC level

Skills

Required:Program managementSystems engineering

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and wellbeing) available at little to no cost to employees
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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