andurilindustries
Senior Technical Program Manager, Production Engineering
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
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.