Product Manager, Air Defense, Vehicles

Irvine, California, United States

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 Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is hiring a Product Manager to own the vehicle-integrated counter-UAS (C-UAS) product line within our Air Defense portfolio. You will be the single-threaded owner for a hardware, software, and platform-integration product that fuses radars, EO/IR sensors, RF/EW payloads, and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors onto tactical ground vehicles, all orchestrated by Lattice.

You will define the product vision and roadmap, write PRDs and technical requirements, prioritize the backlog, and drive the product from discovery through qualification, fielding, and sustainment. You will partner daily with hardware engineering, embedded software, systems integration, mission software, manufacturing, supply chain, business development, and operational end users in the field. You will translate warfighter needs and threat evolution into shippable capability and frame the technical and commercial trade-offs that engineering and GTM leaders need to make sound decisions.

This is a builder role at the intersection of complex hardware, real-time software, and live-fire operational testing. The right candidate has shipped integrated hardware/software products, is fluent in agile product practices and systems engineering rigor, and is energized by getting in the dirt with users to close the loop between deployed capability and the next release.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Own the product: Define the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for the vehicle-integrated C-UAS product. Maintain the PRD, write user stories, prioritize the backlog, and own the release plan across hardware, firmware, and software increments.
  • Drive cross-functional execution: Lead a matrixed team of hardware, embedded, mission software, RF, mechanical, and integration engineers from discovery through production. Run the program day-to-day - sprint reviews, design reviews, gate reviews, and hardware/software integration milestones - and unblock the team.
  • Translate user needs into requirements: Embed with operators, run user research and concept-of-employment workshops, and convert mission needs, threat data, and operational constraints into clear functional, performance, environmental (MIL-STD-810/461/464), and interface requirements.
  • Lead platform integration: Drive ICDs and integration plans for sensors, effectors, comms, power, and the host vehicle. Manage trade studies (SWaP-C, kill chain timelines, sensor coverage, effector mix) and partner with systems engineering on architecture decisions.
  • Mission expertise: You will develop a deep understanding of mission requirements for emerging capabilities, including the nature of threats, operational and resource constraints, rules of engagement, and how they intersect with the end user’s experience. You must proactively communicate this understanding to Anduril’s functional engineering teams to enhance new technologies to support evolving mission needs and product no fit. You will deeply understand product development priorities and business development opportunities, and frame trade-offs to engineering and sales decision makers.
  • Sustain at scale: Own the product through its lifecycle - configuration management, software/firmware OTA strategy, RMA and field service workflows, spares and obsolescence planning, and the customer feedback loop that drives the next revision.
  • Inform commercial strategy: Partner with business development and capture on pricing, positioning, competitive differentiation, and proposal inputs. Brief senior DoW and allied customers on capability, roadmap, and trade-offs.
  • Measure what matters: Define and track product KPIs - kill chain timeline, probability of detection, identification, and kill against representative threats, mean time between failures, mission availability, and field NPS - and use them to drive prioritization.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of product management experience shipping integrated hardware and software products, ideally in defense, aerospace, automotive, robotics, or industrial IoT
  • Demonstrated track record taking products from 0 to 1 and scaling from 1 to 100 - owning the full lifecycle across discovery, requirements, development, qualification, fielding, and sustainment
  • Fluency with modern product practices (PRDs, user stories, roadmapping, backlog grooming, agile/scrum, OKRs) and systems engineering rigor (requirements traceability, ICDs, V-model, configuration management, formal V&V)
  • Technical depth sufficient to lead architecture and trade-study discussions across embedded firmware, real-time software, RF/sensors, mechanical/electrical integration, and networked distributed systems
  • Experience delivering technology to government end users (DoD or allied) or to large, regulated commercial enterprises, including managing customer-sponsored test events and field deployments
  • Eligible for a U.S. DoD Secret/Top Secret security clearance; able to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally to test ranges, integration sites, and customer locations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief senior DoW/government leaders, write crisp PRDs and proposal inputs, and translate engineering trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Prior product management or technical leadership in C-UAS, air defense, EW, radar, fire control, or kinetic effector systems
  • Direct experience integrating sensor and effector payloads onto ground vehicles, including ICDs, MIL-STD environmental qualification, and EMI/EMC compliance
  • Hands-on engineering background (EE, ME, software, RF, controls, or systems) earlier in career
  • Familiarity with C2 and mission software stacks, software-defined architectures, microservices, gRPC/protobuf, ROS2, or equivalent
  • Active U.S. DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance
  • Prior U.S. military or allied service, especially in air defense artillery (ADA), aviation, fires, or related operational community
  • Experience supporting Foreign Military Sales (FMS), DoD acquisition processes (5000-series), and rapid acquisition pathways (MTA, OTA, SOFWERX, AFWERX)

US Salary Range

$146,000 - $194,000 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.

 

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.
    • Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com. 

  • 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 contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

 

Data Privacy

To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/. 

 

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.

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at Anduril Industries? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Select...

Do you presently hold an active U.S. security clearance, or are you eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance?  

For more information about U.S. Security Clearances: click here. 

Select...
Select...

Are you any of the following “protected individual(s)” as defined in the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)?:

Select...

Are you authorized to work in the United States?

Select...
Select...

Have you previously applied to a position at Anduril?

Select...
Select...

Do you currently, or have you in the last 5 years, worked for the US government (e.g., Congressional staffer, member of the military, state, or federal agencies) and had oversight or similar responsibility over Anduril’s business or other interests?   

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.