Product Manager - DefenseOS

The Robot Age; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is hiring a product manager for DefenseOS, a defense operating-system product derived from its commercial VehicleOS work. The first focus is a naval surface-vessel operating system that integrates combat, communications, hull, mechanical, and electrical systems.

This IC product role with direct customer discovery, roadmap ownership, and close partnership with engineering, design, and operations will drive the product strategy across defense customers and operators.

Qualifications

• Product management experience with complex technical systems.
• Ability to work with defense customers, operators, and engineering teams.
• Strong judgment around requirements, prioritization, and roadmap tradeoffs.
• Comfort with architecture-heavy software products that interface with real hardware systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the DefenseOS product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Translate Navy program office, operator, and crew needs into product requirements.
• Shape how a zonal architecture integrates with existing defense systems and legacy interfaces.
• Sequence field readiness, adoption, and product scope with engineering and operations partners.
• Drive product outcomes through influence rather than direct management.

Skills

Product management

Defense customers

Prioritization

Architecture-heavy software

Job description

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring a product manager for DefenseOS, a defense operating-system product derived from its commercial VehicleOS work. The first focus is a naval surface-vessel operating system that integrates combat, communications, hull, mechanical, and electrical systems.

This is an IC product role with direct customer discovery, roadmap ownership, and close partnership with engineering, design, and operations.

What you would work on

• Own the DefenseOS product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Translate Navy program office, operator, and crew needs into product requirements
• Shape how a zonal architecture integrates with existing defense systems and legacy interfaces
• Sequence field readiness, adoption, and product scope with engineering and operations partners
• Drive product outcomes through influence rather than direct management

What they are asking for

• Product management experience with complex technical systems
• Ability to work with defense customers, operators, and engineering teams
• Strong judgment around requirements, prioritization, and roadmap tradeoffs
• Comfort with architecture-heavy software products that interface with real hardware systems

Why this one is worth a look

This is a product job at the edge of commercial autonomy software and defense modernization. The caveat is obvious: it is defense work, but for someone interested in unmanned maritime systems, the scope is unusually direct.