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# Senior Technical Program Manager, Release, Mission Autonomy

- **Company:** Anduril Industries
- **Location:** Lynnwood, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $119,088.0 - $178,774.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Integrated Development Environments, Open Source Technology, Release Management, Phishing, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Strategies of Testing, WebRTC, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us2c91b06f973f3a4d64c638b83be32d58/eaa

## About the Role

* 4+ years of proven experience managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software development environments
 * Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
 * Deep technical acumen: understand software development lifecycles, system architectures, testing methodologies, and quality assurance principles, enabling effective navigation of technical challenges and trade-offs
 * Relentless prioritization: proven ability to identify, escalate, and drive critical path issues to resolution, ensuring release integrity and timeliness
 * Exceptional communication: ability to effectively engage in technical discussions and translate technical details to diverse internal audiences
 * Data-driven & analytical mindset: comfort leveraging metrics and analytics to drive decisions, measure release health, and continuously improve quality
 * Highly organized: Able to manage concurrent priorities in a fast-moving environment, * Direct experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced software build systems in a complex, multi-component environment.
 * Background in defense, hardware, autonomy, or robotics deployments, with an understanding of associated mission-critical quality standards.
 * Demonstrated ability to thrive and provide strategic direction in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments with minimal oversight.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) to oversee the software release lifecycle within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S). In this role, you'll serve as the operational backbone for our release cycles, partnering with engineering leadership to ensure on-time, high-quality software releases to support our customers. You'll bring both strategic systems thinking and execution excellence: blending your ability to proactively identify dependencies and technical risks with an unwavering bias for action and a deep commitment to product quality. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and loves building processes that scale.
WHAT YOU'LL DO

 * End-to-End Release Ownership: drive the software release process from planning to testing and deployment, ensuring on-time, stable releases that meet customer requirements
 * Architect & Elevate Release Quality: define and continuously evolve quality gates, test strategies, and critical release metrics. Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure rigorous testing and embed quality at every stage of the development and release pipeline
 * Bridge Teams and Drive Execution: act as the connective tissue between engineering, test & evaluation, and program management, ensuring seamless execution across teams
 * Strategic Prioritization & Decisive Execution: establish clear frameworks for prioritization, communication, and decision-making that help teams cut through ambiguity and focus on what matters. Rapidly assess technical risks and identify critical release blockers, developing actionable plans to drive issues to resolution
 * Continuous Process Improvement: architect and champion a release management process that balances speed with stability, seeking feedback and leveraging data to implement improvements that scale
 * Transparency & Data-Driven Management: utilize and champion industry-standard program management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to track progress, manage issues, visualize key metrics, and facilitate transparent, real-time communication across stakeholders, 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, .
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates. * Please always verify communications:

 * Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to . Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
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By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security., Description: Weyerhaeuser is a recognized leader in sustainable forestry and wood products, committed to innovation, operational excellence, and responsible stewardship. As Senio…

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