Principal Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

New Principal Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Engineering Costa Mesa, California, United States Apply 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 ROLE We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering to lead mission-critical, high-visibility engineering initiatives across the company. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of technical depth, executive leadership, and operational execution. Specifically, you will function in three primary capacities as Chief of Staff (~15%) to the department head—driving strategic planning, org-wide operating cadences, executive alignment, and unblocking critical internal engineering efforts. Simultaneously, you will own InfraEng’s Operational Excellence (OE) charter (~25 - 35%) across Cloud, Platform, Networking, and Datacenter/On-Prem functions, driving rigor throughout the organization to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and QOS paces our audacious expansion and growth. You will also directly quarterback high-visibility flagship programs (~50-60%) —ranging from critical reliability and resilience efforts, cross-cutting architectural migrations, and manufacturing enablement. WHAT YOU'LL DO 1. Chief of Staff Function & Strategic Leadership (~15%) Curating the rhythm that produces speed, accuracy, executive sponsorship and trust:

Partner directly with the Head of Infrastructure Engineering to translate organizational vision into prioritized technical roadmaps, resource allocations, and cross-team execution plans. Execute and continuously tune the department's operational rhythm, including executive business reviews, operational reviews, and C-level briefings spanning complex engineering initiatives. Drive cross-functional alignment and unblock dependencies across InfraEng in order to deliver value greater than the sum of individual teams/capabilities. Spearhead strategic initiatives, vendor and service provider restructurings, and cost-optimization programs to maximize efficiency without compromising security or deployment velocity.

2. Operational Excellence (OE) & Resilience (~25 - 35%) Defining, measuring and continuously improving the processes and technologies that achieve unreasonably high SLOs, SLAs and QoS.

Define, launch, scale and measure Operational Excellence (OE) processes and mechanisms across all networking, cloud, platform, and datacenter functions. Identify and scope tooling and automation opportunities that continuously lessen human intervention as a success dependency. Institute systemic availability frameworks, observability and incident recovery strategies, and automated zonal failure detection and mitigation standards. Lead high-leverage operational forums (e.g., Weekly Infrastructure Operations Reviews), engineering rigor inspections, post-incident reports and root-cause remediations. Design and implement (organization and/or enterprise-wide) process, standards, common ways of working where none exist today.

3. Flagship Special Programs (~50%) Single Threaded Owner (STO) and organizational API for initiatives such as:

Directly execute high-stakes, time-critical engineering programs spanning hybrid infrastructure, Factory Systems and Manufacturing networks, sovereign