Program Manager, Mission Autonomy, Active Clearance
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE JOB
We are seeking a highly motivated Program Manager (PM) to oversee the software release lifecycle and development process within the Mission Autonomy division to support autonomous flight this role you will lead the Internal Research & Development (IRAD) efforts to develop integrate test and operationalize next-generation mission autonomy software onto airframes. You will spend your time collaborating with world-class software engineers systems engineers quality assurance and flight test pilots to test and validate autonomy solutions in simulation and prove it in the air.
What Youll Do
- Drive the Autonomy Roadmap: Own the end-to-end scope schedule budget resource allocation and execution of the Mission Autonomy IRAD (Internal Research and Development) roadmap.
- Lead Test & Evaluation Strategy: Own the strategy development and execution of team-controlled test environments (Simulation Software-in-the-Loop Hardware-in-the-Loop) and test infrastructure. Partner with Test & Evaluation (T&E) teams to coordinate real-world flight testing ensuring software is thoroughly tested before live flight.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineers hardware engineers chief engineers program managers business operations and finance to meet the IRAD objectives.
- Facilitate Technical Decisions: Develop deep technical fluency in vehicle systems to effectively facilitate architectural discussions evaluate engineering trade-offs and drive team consensus.
- Unblock the Engineering Team: Anticipate bottlenecks manage risk make prioritization trade-offs and clear administrative and logistical hurdles so engineers can focus on building.
- Strategic Capture: Manage capture programs by helping identify opportunities assessing viability developing a winning strategy and supporting proposals.
- Report to Leadership: Provide clear data-driven status updates risk assessments and flight-test debriefs to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Active U.S. Security Clearance: Must possess an active Secret clearance (TS/SCI strongly preferred).
- Technical Foundation: Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Proven PM Experience: 4 years of technical program management product management or engineering leadership experience in the aerospace defense autonomous systems industries or relevant industry.
- Bias for Action: Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced ambiguous and rapidly changing environment as a self-starter who gets things done.
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 30-50% to operations sites and test ranges.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
- Autonomy Expertise: Experience with autonomous command and control (C2) collaborative autonomy or AI/ML-driven decision-making systems.
- Flight Test Experience: Direct hands-on experience planning executing and analyzing flight tests for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)ideally Group 3 4 or 5 platforms.
- Pilot or Operator Experience: Experience as a rated pilot (manned) or UAS operator (Group 3-5) is a significant plus.
US Salary Range
$166000 - $220000 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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