Senior Manager, AI-Driven Software & Reliability

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager to lead production software at the intersection of AI and software engineering. You will own the reliability of AI-enabled systems and drive engineering practices across design, testing, release, and on-call responsibilities.

You will manage a software engineering team, set a clear roadmap, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, platform, and AI teams to deliver impactful solutions for national security applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or reliability engineering with 2+ years in people management.
• Led an engineering team owning production systems end to end (delivery, reliability, on-call).
• Fluent with modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on with AI-enabled software systems and AI-accelerated workflows like LLM features or agentic automation.
• Strong leadership, hiring, coaching, and development of engineers at varied levels.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and communicate clearly to executives.
• BS/BA in CS/IS/Engineering or related field; U.S. Person status required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software engineering team building and operating production software at the intersection of AI and software engineering.
• Set and drive the team’s roadmap across feature delivery, reliability investments, AI-enabled capabilities, and operational improvements.
• Manage, coach, and develop software engineers and tech leads, including goal setting, performance management, hiring, and succession planning.
• Partner closely with product, AI engineering, platform, infrastructure, and downstream stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and delivery commitments.
• Establish and reinforce engineering norms around design review, code review, testing, release management, on-call, incident response, and production ownership for the systems your team owns.
• Drive reliability and operational excellence across your team’s services, including service ownership, observability, release confidence, and preventative work that reduces recurring classes of failure.
• Raise the bar on how the team applies AI to its own engineering work, including effective use of AI coding assistants, agentic automation, and evaluation-driven development of AI-enabled features.
• Ensure your team builds AI-enabled systems responsibly, with practical quality, safety, and reliability controls appropriate to non-deterministic behavior.
• Contribute to cross-team engineering standards, operating mechanisms, and platform decisions as a senior manager inside CorpTech Platform.
• Communicate strategy, risks, trade-offs, and execution status clearly to senior engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.

Skills

People management

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

AI-enabled software

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

Education

Degree in CS / Engineering or related field

Tools

AI coding assistants

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Manager to lead production software at the intersection of AI and software engineering. You will own the reliability of AI-enabled systems and drive engineering practices across design, testing, release, and on-call responsibilities.

You will manage a software engineering team, set a clear roadmap, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, platform, and AI teams to deliver impactful solutions for national security applications.