Senior Manager, Software Engineering

ABOUT THE TEAM:

CorpTech Platform is the internal engineering force multiplier behind Andurils corporate systems.
It drives CorpTech engineering forward through strategic investment in data platforms software platforms QA and release excellence ERP engineering and AI infrastructure.

We build the foundations that power both CorpOS enabling Finance and Growth to operate with speed and precision and ArsenalOS the digital backbone of Andurils hardware enterprise. By unifying systems accelerating development velocity and embedding intelligence into every layer CorpTech Platform transforms how the company operates end to end.

We are also driving Anduril toward becoming an autonomous enterprise. Through initiatives like the Autonomous Software Factory we are rethinking how software is built tested deployed and evolved by integrating AI directly into the engineering lifecycle.

This is not a support function. It is a strategic engine. CorpTech Platform is how Anduril scales its business systems with the same rigor speed and adaptability as its mission critical products.

ABOUT THE JOB:

This Senior Manager role sits where three disciplines meet: software engineering reliability engineering and applied AI. The team builds and operates production systems that are themselves AI-enabled while also adopting AI-accelerated development practices in how those systems are designed shipped and maintained. The person in this role is accountable for the software their team produces the reliability of the systems it runs and the maturity of the AI-enabled engineering practices the team uses and models for the broader org.

WHAT YOULL DO:

• Lead a software engineering team responsible for building shipping and operating production software at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
• Set and drive the teams roadmap across feature delivery reliability investments AI-enabled capabilities and operational improvements converting ambiguous priorities into a coherent execution plan.
• Manage coach and develop software engineers and tech leads including goal setting performance management hiring and succession planning.
• Partner closely with product AI engineering platform infrastructure and downstream stakeholders to align on priorities trade-offs and delivery commitments.
• Establish and reinforce engineering norms around design review code review testing release management on-call incident response and production ownership for the systems your team owns.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence across your teams services including service ownership observability release confidence and preventative work that reduces recurring classes of failure.
• Raise the bar on how the team applies AI to its own engineering work including effective use of AI coding assistants agentic automation and evaluation-driven development of AI-enabled features.
• Ensure your team builds AI-enabled systems responsibly with practical quality safety and reliability controls appropriate to non-deterministic behavior.
• Contribute to cross-team engineering standards operating mechanisms and platform decisions as a senior manager inside CorpTech Platform.
• Communicate strategy risks trade-offs and execution status clearly to senior engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7 years of experience in software engineering reliability engineering or closely related disciplines including at least 2 years of direct people management of software engineers.
• Demonstrated success managing an engineering team that owned production systems end to end including delivery reliability and on-call responsibility.
• Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures APIs distributed systems CI/CD observability and cloud or platform infrastructure; able to engage credibly with senior engineers on architectural and execution trade-offs.
• Practical experience with AI-enabled software systems and AI-accelerated engineering workflows including LLM-based features AI coding assistants or agentic automation and awareness of the quality and reliability challenges they introduce.
• Strong people leadership skills including hiring coaching performance management and development of engineers and tech leads at varied career stages.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity create clarity from incomplete information and balance speed with engineering rigor under real delivery pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineers executive leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience leading teams that combine software engineering with site reliability engineering production engineering or quality engineering responsibilities under a single charter.
• Experience operationalizing AI-enabled systems in production including evaluation frameworks guardrails observability for model behavior and incident response for non-deterministic failures.
• Experience improving release cadence test strategy observability and on-call health for teams carrying meaningful operational load.
• Familiarity with frontier AI tooling AI coding assistants MCP agentic systems and evaluation-driven development workflows.
• Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments with demonstrated success balancing speed organizational scale and long-term engineering health.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems and business process domains such as ERP MES WMS CRM finance systems or manufacturing systems.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

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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