Senior Technical Program Manager, Test

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE 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 at Arsenal 1 in Ohio. Every aircraft that leaves the factory has to be proven.

ABOUT THE JOB

You own whether the test program delivers on schedule, on cost, and at the throughput the production ramp demands. Your accountability is the program-level outcome: are we testing fast enough, at low enough cost, with high enough confidence to support delivery commitments?

Success in this position hinges on three key facets:

• Program-level test performance - you drive test plan development and acceptance criteria alongside engineering, but you own the schedule and cost outcome. When test is the bottleneck, you diagnose why, challenge priorities, and make the call on what moves.
• Automation maturation - what takes days today needs to take hours as rate scales. You drive the prioritization and investment decisions that make test automation real, not aspirational.
• Technical credibility - you understand the systems well enough to ask the right questions when a test fails. You do not wait for escalation. You drive resolution across engineering and production because you understand the technical context.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own schedule and cost performance of the production acceptance test program, driving throughput to match production ramp targets
• Drive test plan development and acceptance criteria alongside engineering, ensuring test scope is sufficient without being excessive
• Identify and drive automation maturation opportunities, prioritizing investment against schedule and cost targets
• Drive resolution of test failures across engineering and production, diagnosing root cause and ensuring corrective action holds
• Interface with government test organizations, ensuring test cadence supports customer delivery commitments
• Build the systems that connect test results to engineering and production decisions, making test data actionable not just archival
• Own test schedule risk identification and mitigation, intervening before bottlenecks compound into delivery slips
• Leverage quantitative models (test optimization, predictive pass/fail analysis, throughput modeling) to inform test program decisions
• Prepare technical documentation, analysis reports, and briefings for internal teams, customers, and government stakeholders
• Maintain reproducible analysis pipelines using version control, scripting, and scalable workflows

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in technical program management, test engineering, or test operations in complex hardware or aerospace environments
• Demonstrated ownership of test program schedule and cost performance in production or acceptance testing contexts
• Experience driving test automation strategy and implementation in hardware production environments
• Technical depth sufficient to understand test failures, challenge root cause analysis, and drive resolution across teams
• Experience coordinating with government test organizations or customer acceptance processes
• Comfortable building or interpreting quantitative models to inform test and schedule decisions
• Familiar with version control, scripting, scalable workflows, and reproducible analysis practices
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or autonomous systems production test environments
• Proficiency with data tools such as Palantir Foundry, test data analytics platforms, or custom analysis stacks
• Background in test optimization modeling, discrete event simulation applied to test throughput, or predictive analytics
• Experience scaling test programs alongside production ramp from low rate to full rate
• Familiarity with acceptance test procedure development for complex electromechanical or avionics systems

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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