Senior Program Chief Engineer

Anduril
Irvine
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Stakeholder management"]

Lead and own air defense programs from concept through execution, coordinating with cross-functional teams and clients to define requirements, drive technical outcomes, and ensure timely delivery of software and hardware solutions. Influence roadmaps, manage stakeholders, and navigate ambiguity to deliver impactful defense technologies in a fast-paced environment.

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Anduril
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10 months ago

Senior Program Chief Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead and own air defense programs from concept through execution, coordinating with cross-functional teams and clients to define requirements, drive technical outcomes, and ensure timely delivery of software and hardware solutions. Influence roadmaps, manage stakeholders, and navigate ambiguity to deliver impactful defense technologies in a fast-paced environment.
Location: Irvine
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Act as the primary technical liaison for the client, advocate for their needs within the engineering organization and ensure their feedback directly influences the engineering roadmap. Communicate the outputs of these efforts including upcoming software releases, new capabilities, and performance improvement over time.
  • •Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, drive product development through operational learnings and data, own the technical narrative from product deliver through continuous improvements. Credibly represent our system in front of technical and nontechnical clients
  • •Tactical Execution: Bring clarity to the path between engineering development and operational delivery. Whether through sprint planning and execution or on-the-ground support of test events, attack blockers and guide the team through fast-paced execution to deliver the optimal technical outcome for the client.
  • •Strategic Planning: Translate strategic business goals and program requirements into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they deliver intended outcomes and add value to the business. Oversee the allocation of personnel, budget, and other resources to ensure successful execution of these initiatives. When possible, lead with data.
  • •Execute Autonomously: Execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Seize the opportunity to shape requirements in favor of the optimal product for the client and the company. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceRetirement SavingsTime OffCommuter BenefitsRelocationIncome Protection

Key Requirements

  • •Minimum of 7+ years experience as a Chief Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Engineer in an autonomous systems, robotics, or software development environment.
  • •Proven client-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains.
  • •A strong familiarity with robotics, sensor integrations, or computer vision systems and their architecture preferred.
  • •Proven experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments.
  • •Experience working in a rapidly iterating test environment with high levels of integration with software development teams.
Experience:7+ yearsDefenseAerospaceRobotics
Education:Bachelor's in EngineeringBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipStakeholder management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Lattice OSRoboticsComputer visionSensor fusionJIRAConfluence

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Secret

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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