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Deputy Program Chief Engineer

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering : IBCS-M
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Irvine, Californiafull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Technical leader role within Anduril's Air Defense team focusing on coordinating multi-disciplinary programs, engaging stakeholders, driving technical outcomes, and orchestrating cross-team initiatives to deliver Air Defense capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, partnering with the account lead to advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensuring their feedback directly influences the requirements generation process. Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases, new capabilities, and performance improvement over time.
  • 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.
  • Strategic Planning and Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business. Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives.
  • Execute Autonomously: 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.
  • Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives. Collaborate closely with other partner teams, such as hardware, product, and test operations as needed.
  • Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the organization's capabilities and strategic goals.

Qualifications

  • Proven customer-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
  • Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
  • Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
  • Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
  • Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time

Skills

Required:Customer-facing technical program managementSystems engineeringCross-functional leadershipStakeholder management
Nice to have:Technical proposal drafting

Benefits

  • Benefits package (comprehensive, competitive) 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
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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