Technical Program Manager - Lattice Simulation

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.

WHY WE’RE HERE:

The Lattice Simulation group is dedicated to building comprehensive, high-fidelity simulation environments that enable rapid prototyping, testing, and evaluation of Anduril's autonomous systems. We develop sophisticated Mission Simulation products that support a Model Based Development (MBD) approach across the company. Our Mission Simulation allows for concept evaluation, stimulation of real systems like Mission Autonomy, and wargaming with warfighters. By leveraging these simulation capabilities, we aim to create a powerful, scalable ecosystem that supports virtual testing, operator training, and innovative concept development across all war-fighting domains. Our simulations interface seamlessly with Lattice, enabling users to task, override, and provide consent for groups of autonomous assets in both real and simulated environments. We also build software that beautifully visualizes both real and simulated data, whether historical or live, allowing users to create "what-if" scenarios to evaluate mission concepts. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a cohesive simulation infrastructure that drives technological advancement, reduces development costs, and enhances operational readiness for Anduril and its customers. The Lattice Simulation group plays a crucial role in Anduril's mission to bring advanced autonomous and AI capabilities to defense systems through virtual environments.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Help define and align development teams’ roadmaps, ensuring clear understanding across teams and alignment with programs and staffing. Ensure the roadmap is clear, technical dependencies are understood and tracked, and staffing and resourcing are balanced to execute on teams’ roadmaps.
• Autonomously execute with a high degree of ownership on broad requirements, managing stakeholders across the Software Platform organization, Business Lines and other company partners simultaneously and delivering successful outcomes.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive program execution, team velocity, and cross-functional collaboration, acting as an effective proxy when needed. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Collaborate with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities that achieve company milestones, while supporting leads with staffing plans and prioritization.
• Track and communicate program progress, defining efficient processes for broader status updates and proactively managing issues and obstacles. Clearly communicate across all stakeholders, ensuring the dependencies and blockers made clear, and tracked and acted on consistently.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level, propose alternatives when necessary. Corral key performance indicators from across the business to help shape future organizational investments.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of five years experience as a TPM in a high-paced, software development environment.
• Robust technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, trade-offs and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong experience and familiarity in project management for software development; practical familiarity with a variety of methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Understanding of simulation technologies, autonomous systems, and their applications in defense/military contexts
• Experience with or knowledge of AR/VR technologies and their applications
• Familiarity with defense and aerospace systems
• Experience in building