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Senior Technical Program Manager - Lethality Team

Anduril· Hardware Platform : Hardware Engineering Services : Lethality
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Technical Program Manager leading cross-functional execution for warhead-development programs, aligning Energetics Team with vehicle programs, and turning evolving requirements into executable plans across concept to production.

Responsibilities

  • Lead program execution across multiple warhead-development efforts, from early concept and prototype work through testing and production transition.
  • Build and maintain integrated plans that connect scope, schedules, requirements, resources, costs, technical dependencies, risks, and decision points.
  • Serve as the primary program interface between the Energetics Team and Anduril vehicle teams, aligning deliverables, timing, quantities, and changes to the plan.
  • Track requirements across platform and warhead teams, identify gaps or conflicts, and drive owners toward timely resolution.
  • Translate evolving technical work into clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and commitments for engineering and program stakeholders.
  • Anticipate hardware-development constraints and incorporate them into realistic schedules.
  • Keep rapid prototypes and risk-reduction testing connected to defined program questions and milestones.
  • Partner with engineering, Product, Test and Evaluation, Safety, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Production, and program teams to resolve dependencies and maintain alignment.
  • Surface risks early and frame options to drive decisions before delivery failures.
  • Create program communications, engineering documentation, schedules, cost estimates, risk summaries, and decision records.
  • Lead post-test and post-milestone reviews to convert lessons learned into actions.
  • Help establish practical program-management methods for the Energetics portfolio and mentor less-experienced leaders.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience leading complex hardware-development programs or major workstreams through multiple lifecycle stages (concept, prototyping, procurement, fabrication, integration, testing, or production).
  • Experience coordinating several concurrent programs or subsystem teams in a fast-moving R&D or new-product-development environment.
  • Working knowledge of hardware-development and manufacturing timelines with ability to identify dependencies, build credible schedules, and anticipate downstream risks.
  • Experience aligning technical requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables across teams without direct authority.
  • Evidence of bringing structure to ambiguous programs, adapting process to work, and driving decisions to closure.
  • Ability to communicate technical and program information clearly through written updates, visual plans, reviews, and stakeholder conversations.
  • Experience preparing engineering or program documentation, project schedules, and cost estimates.
  • Ability to travel for program reviews, testing, and customer/partner meetings, including surges up to 25%.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:Program leadershipIntegrated schedulingRequirements managementStakeholder managementRisk managementCommunication

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and other supports)
  • Equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation
  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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