Senior Software Engineering Manager

About The Team

Anduril’s Tactical Recon & Strike (TRS) is a division with two missions: 1) build highly capable autonomous drones, and 2) build solid rocket motors at scale. We transform products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius from early concepts into fully operational capabilities by partnering closely with specialist engineering, operations, and production teams. Through our Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team, we design and manufacture solid rocket motors using advanced materials, proprietary formulations, and high-volume production methods—delivering safe, reliable propulsion systems that support a wide range of mission requirements. TRS hires software engineers & hardware engineers, who are excited to build across a diverse and powerful portfolio—from autonomous aerial systems to high-performance solid rocket motors. Our teams contribute to highly capable autonomous robotics systems and propulsion products that operate reliably in the most demanding mission environment.

About The Job

Anduril is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our team of exceptionally talented professionals dedicated to delivering mission outcomes through technology. In this role, you will lead high-stakes, high-profile customer programs and enhance our engineering capabilities across the Launched Effects business line. This technical leadership position, based in the Tactical Recon and Strike Division, focuses on developing hardware and software UAV solutions for the modern battle space. We are looking for someone with a proven track record in designing, building, and delivering complex, diverse customer programs.

The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills to set objectives, build teams, and drive projects to successful completion, delivering optimized, multi-disciplinary products and programs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Define a vision and develop a strategy for maturing our delivery model, weaving together customer intent, technical roadmap and Anduril’s desired outcomes into a long-term roadmap for the Altius business line strategy
• Strengthen and grow a dedicated software discipline around the end to end delivery of complex customer projects here at Anduril
• Effectively lead and execute complex customer programs while managing customer spend, transitioning them from R&D to production while working with the executive team
• Build and run a portfolio of software-driven programs that span major customer/capital spend AND/OR self-funded IRAD to advance an objective, or support customer exercises
• Effectively lead, manage, and execute - from early stage system design, and technical evaluations to later stage software development, system integration, testing and deployment and management of a potentially large number of engineers, spanning from embedded robotic software to Command and Control (C2) and simulation(s)
• Attract, retain, and grow top talent in software/Robotics engineering

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Deep understanding of unmanned aircraft and/or autonomous robotics systems
• Proven ability to drive rigorous software development, validation and verification in a dynamic and high-pace delivery environment
• Lead the Designed → Built → Delivered experience of software from prototype to production
• Engineering product background and experience building a technical product
• Significant customer-facing experience (ie. strong inter-personal skills / executive gravitas) leading high profile and high stakes programs where success, and associated revenue collection, is tied to complete program success
• Track record of transitioning to production while doing R&D
• Experience creating teams and org strategy focusing them around a common vision and goals.
• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics/software engineering or equivalent experience in a relevant field. Strong preference for Software/Robotics
• Experience working cross-functionally with different stakeholders and engineering/product disciplines to deliver on company’s objectives
• Managing complex personalities, high profile individuals and different relationships across government, services, commands or countries
• Ability to decompose complex problems and define scope, timelines and milestones
• Managed major customer/capital spend on programs that required large numbers of engineers
• Proven history of managing multiple enterprise-scale partners
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Software-centric background with experience in integration(s) within 3rd party systems
• Experience in a senior role leading air vehicle programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
• Software and hardware systems experience
• Experience with Command & Control systems