Hardware Product Manager, Intelligence Systems

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 Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements. ABOUT THE JOB As the HPM for a critical program in the Intelligence Systems business line, you will be heavily involved in solving real-world challenges. You will be positioned at the intersection of a variety of critical teams that you will work with to help progress technologies from initial concept through readiness for use in production. In addition, being the voice of the technology helping internal and external teams understand the missions the technology solves. Your day-to-day focus will change often as you navigate a complex technology development roadmap, but it should include opportunities such as developing a cross-functional strategy, gathering and reviewing critical market data, tracking key product alignment and cost metrics, meeting with external parties to present technology vision and impact, finding and reducing technical gaps in capabilities, and much more. Anduril is a rapidly growing company, and the right person for this role should be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with many competing priorities while managing multiple projects in parallel. Candidates for this role should have experience in electrical hardware development and have ideally worked within all stages of a standard product life cycle, but specifically in the concept thru NPI. They should be technically inclined and able to comfortably understand core engineering design principals WHAT YOU’LL DO You are well positioned to consistently interact with all teams at Anduril and often will be tasked to represent the project in a cross-functional capacity. You should be knowledgeable of not only the current state of the product, but also the various technical and operational factors which define the architecture and overall vision. Expect to work with program leadership, engineering, sourcing, quality, reliability, manufacturing and configuration management teams in support of executing program milestones and deliverables. Establishing key milestones and targets from across the organization to help define the product schedules and prioritization roadmap. This will require an in-depth understanding of what teams are affected by the various stages of your project’s engineering development. You are to ensure that teams are being engaged at the right time and at the right product maturity stage to be successful. Identify and understand how your product fits within other product schedules. The roadmap you help develop would be the guide for your product that the organizations would reference and plan around. Evaluate and prioritize the various tasks required to successfully support the product development efforts. The HPM should be prepared to help drive to the best decision for the product and company. This generally should be a data driven approach, and should i ... (truncated, view full listing at source)