- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Oct 28, 2026
- Salary
- $167,000–$222,000 a year
Program Manager, Open Architecture - Active Clearance
Job description
We are seeking a highly motivated Program Manager to own a portion of a growing portfolio of government reference architecture programs. In this role, you'll be the single point of ownership for the programs assigned to you, partnering with engineering, contracts, and government stakeholders to keep technical, cost, and schedule baselines aligned and commitments met. You'll bring both architectural fluency and execution discipline: blending the technical depth to hold your own in an open systems trade discussion with the rigor to drive milestone and risk burndown, and the credibility to represent your programs directly to the customer.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with…
Job requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in program management on government or defense programs, including direct ownership of cost, schedule, and technical performance
- Active US Secret clearance
- Experience with systems engineering and/or software engineering
- Experience with government reference architectures
- Contract deliverable ownership: hands-on experience planning, driving, and delivering CDRLs — managing submission schedules, internal authoring and review cycles, and compliance with data item descriptions
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships across engineering, contracts, finance, and security in dynamic, high-pressure environments
- Proven track record as the primary interface to a government program office, running program reviews and technical interchange meetings and representing program status directly to the customer
- Experience managing budgets, schedules, and resources to achieve program objectives, including tracking burn against funding and producing defensible EAC/ETC forecasts
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