Product Manager, Air Defense, Vehicles
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Irvine, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking identification deterrence and defeat our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product engineering business development logistics operations and mission success the Air Defense team develops tests deploys and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.
ABOUT THE JOB
Anduril is hiring a Product Manager to own the vehicle-integrated counter-UAS (C-UAS) product line within our Air Defense portfolio. You will be the single-threaded owner for a hardware software and platform-integration product that fuses radars EO/IR sensors RF/EW payloads and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors onto tactical ground vehicles all orchestrated by Lattice.
You will define the product vision and roadmap write PRDs and technical requirements prioritize the backlog and drive the product from discovery through qualification fielding and sustainment. You will partner daily with hardware engineering embedded software systems integration mission software manufacturing supply chain business development and operational end users in the field. You will translate warfighter needs and threat evolution into shippable capability and frame the technical and commercial trade-offs that engineering and GTM leaders need to make sound decisions.
This is a builder role at the intersection of complex hardware real-time software and live-fire operational testing. The right candidate has shipped integrated hardware/software products is fluent in agile product practices and systems engineering rigor and is energized by getting in the dirt with users to close the loop between deployed capability and the next release.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Own the product: Define the vision strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for the vehicle-integrated C-UAS product. Maintain the PRD write user stories prioritize the backlog and own the release plan across hardware firmware and software increments.
- Drive cross-functional execution: Lead a matrixed team of hardware embedded mission software RF mechanical and integration engineers from discovery through production. Run the program day-to-day - sprint reviews design reviews gate reviews and hardware/software integration milestones - and unblock the team.
- Translate user needs into requirements: Embed with operators run user research and concept-of-employment workshops and convert mission needs threat data and operational constraints into clear functional performance environmental (MIL-STD-810/461/464) and interface requirements.
- Lead platform integration: Drive ICDs and integration plans for sensors effectors comms power and the host vehicle. Manage trade studies (SWaP-C kill chain timelines sensor coverage effector mix) and partner with systems engineering on architecture decisions.
- Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities including the nature of threats operational and resource constraints rules of engagement and how they intersect with the end users experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Andurils functional engineering teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers.
- Sustain at scale: Own the product through its lifecycle - configuration management software/firmware OTA strategy RMA and field service workflows spares and obsolescence planning and the customer feedback loop that drives the next revision.
- Inform commercial strategy: Partner with business development and capture on pricing positioning competitive differentiation and proposal inputs. Brief senior DoW and allied customers on capability roadmap and trade-offs.
- Measure what matters: Define and track product KPIs - kill chain timeline probability of detection identification and kill against representative threats mean time between failures mission availability and field NPS - and use them to drive prioritization.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of product management experience shipping integrated hardware and software products ideally in defense aerospace automotive robotics or industrial IoT
- Demonstrated track record taking products from 0 to 1 and scaling from 1 to 100 - owning the full lifecycle across discovery requirements development qualification fielding and sustainment
- Fluency with modern product practices (PRDs user stories roadmapping backlog grooming agile/scrum OKRs) and systems engineering rigor (requirements traceability ICDs V-model configuration management formal V&V)
- Technical depth sufficient to lead architecture and trade-study discussions across embedded firmware real-time software RF/sensors mechanical/electrical integration and networked distributed systems
- Experience delivering technology to government end users (DoD or allied) or to large regulated commercial enterprises including managing customer-sponsored test events and field deployments
- Eligible for a U.S. DoD Secret/Top Secret security clearance; able to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally to test ranges integration sites and customer locations
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief senior DoW/government leaders write crisp PRDs and proposal inputs and translate engineering trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior product management or technical leadership in C-UAS air defense EW radar fire control or kinetic effector systems
- Direct experience integrating sensor and effector payloads onto ground vehicles including ICDs MIL-STD environmental qualification and EMI/EMC compliance
- Hands-on engineering background (EE ME software RF controls or systems) earlier in career
- Familiarity with C2 and mission software stacks software-defined architectures microservices gRPC/protobuf ROS2 or equivalent
- Active U.S. DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance
- Prior U.S. military or allied service especially in air defense artillery (ADA) aviation fires or related operational community
- Experience supporting Foreign Military Sales (FMS) DoD acquisition processes (5000-series) and rapid acquisition pathways (MTA OTA SOFWERX AFWERX)
US Salary Range
$146000 - $194000 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:
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