andurilindustries

Senior Technical Program Manager, Production Engineering

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At a Glance

Location
Costa Mesa, California, United States
Experience
5+ years
Department
Program Management
Posted
2026-06-01T10:32:04-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Aerospace
  • Banking
  • Defense
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Manufacturing
  • Media
  • Regulatory

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance

ensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to empl

Requirements

5+ years in technical program management, NPI, or design-to-production roles in complex hardware environments

Demonstrated experience blocking or redirecting engineering releases based on production readiness assessment

Technical depth in hardware design and manufacturing processes sufficient to challenge engineering on producibility

Experience managing engineering change processes (ECO/ECN) and tracing change impact to cost and schedule

Comfortable building or interpreting quantitative models to inform design and production trade decisions

Familiar with version control, scripting, scalable workflows, and reproducible analysis practices

Responsibilities

Your job is to make the handoff from design to production predictable, fast, and right the first time.

you drive NPI and sustaining engineering changes through the system with clear release criteria, honest impact assessments, and hard gates when something is not ready.

You work with the change management team to trace every engineering decision to its production outcome.

Technical depth to challenge engineering

Speed across organizational boundaries

you drive decisions between engineering and production faster than the cadence allows.

Team

The Air Dominance and Strike Division is one of Anduril's fastest growing, most technically complex divisions. We develop and build collaborative combat aircraft, missiles, and the software that powers these autonomous weapons. We are scaling production of a first-of-kind autonomous aircraft. Every design decision becomes a production outcome, and this role owns that connection.