Air Defense Release Manager for Mission-Critical Software

Anduril; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a seasoned SW Release Manager for its Air Defense team. You will define and manage major software releases aligned with program milestones, delivering production‑quality software for safety and mission‑critical systems across multiple product variants.

You will ensure timely, secure, and reliable software delivery to warfighters, coordinating with System Engineers and Product teams, and implementing automated testing and CI/CD in a robust environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning a software release process.
• Experience with build automation tooling such as GitHub, CircleCI, and other DevOps tools.
• Proven deployment experience for production software and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong coding skills and automated test coverage infrastructure (on-device and in the cloud).
• Experience with C++, Rust, or Go, plus Python and Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with DoD SDLC, MIL-STD-882, STIGs, and DevSecOps for ATO.
• Ability to present updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• U.S. Person status required for export-controlled data and DoD security clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Translate software requirements into release plans and deliverables with System Engineers and Product teams.
• Ensure timely delivery of release artifacts and supporting documentation.
• Continuously improve release and quality processes.
• Coordinate deployment of development releases to test/evaluation teams.
• Implement and manage automated testing and deployment in CI/CD environments.
• Use Git and CI tools to run nightly builds and system checks.
• Define SITL and HITL tests to validate system-level performance.

Skills

Release management

CI/CD pipelines

Automation testing

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Git

GitHub

CircleCI

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a seasoned SW Release Manager for its Air Defense team. You will define and manage major software releases aligned with program milestones, delivering production‑quality software for safety and mission‑critical systems across multiple product variants.

You will ensure timely, secure, and reliable software delivery to warfighters, coordinating with System Engineers and Product teams, and implementing automated testing and CI/CD in a robust environment.