Senior Technical Program Manager, Quality

Anduril
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 143,000 - 191,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Skills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Technical credibility","Quantitative analysis","Documentation","Continuous improvement"]

Own the cost and cycle-time impact of quality by building the systems that connect defects, root causes, and dollars into a closed-loop decision framework. Drive cross-team accountability across quality engineering, production, supply chain, and design to prove corrective actions stick. Create program-level KPIs, qualification decision support, and reproducible analysis pipelines using quantitative models to prevent issues before they become systemic.

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Senior Technical Program Manager, Quality

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Job Summary

Own the cost and cycle-time impact of quality by building the systems that connect defects, root causes, and dollars into a closed-loop decision framework. Drive cross-team accountability across quality engineering, production, supply chain, and design to prove corrective actions stick. Create program-level KPIs, qualification decision support, and reproducible analysis pipelines using quantitative models to prevent issues before they become systemic.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and own mechanisms connecting incoming quality, in-process defects, root cause, and cost impact into a closed loop that drives decisions.
  • •Own cost-of-quality trending, closed-loop resolution rate, and continuous improvement velocity measured in cost and cycle time.
  • •Drive cross-team resolution across quality engineering, production, supply chain, and design when quality issues emerge.
  • •Own schedule and financial performance of every quality-driven decision on the program.
  • •Build KPIs connecting operational quality metrics to program-level cost, schedule, and delivery outcomes, and drive qualification decisions with cost and schedule data.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 143,000 - 191,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in technical program management, quality engineering, or quality systems roles in complex hardware production environments.
  • •Demonstrated ability to build quality systems and cost-of-quality frameworks from scratch.
  • •Experience driving cross-functional resolution of quality issues across engineering, production, and supply chain.
  • •Technical depth in manufacturing processes sufficient to challenge root cause analysis and validate corrective actions.
  • •Experience interfacing with government quality oversight (DCMA or equivalent) and comfortable building/interpreting quantitative models to inform quality and cost decisions.
Experience:Hardware productionAerospaceDefenseAutonomous systems
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationTechnical credibilityQuantitative analysisDocumentationContinuous improvement
Certifications:Lean Six SigmaAS9100
Tech Stack:Lattice OSPalantir FoundryStatistical process controlVersion controlScriptingPredictive defect modelingCausal analysisClassification analysis

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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