Technical Program Manager, Release Mission Autonomy
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) to oversee the software release lifecycle within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S). In this role youll serve as the operational backbone for our release cycles partnering with engineering leadership to ensure on-time high-quality software releases to support our customers. Youll bring both strategic systems thinking and execution excellence: blending your ability to proactively identify dependencies and technical risks with an unwavering bias for action and a deep commitment to product quality. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and loves building processes that scale.
WHAT YOULL DO
- 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.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 4 years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced mission-critical software development environments.
- 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.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Direct experience with release management CI/CD pipelines and advanced software build systems in a complex multi-component environment.
- Background in defense hardware autonomy or robotics deployments with an understanding of associated mission-critical quality standards.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive and provide strategic direction in ambiguous rapidly evolving environments with minimal oversight.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
US Salary Range
$132000 - $198000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
Benefits
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