Product Manager Jobs at Anduril

Anduril PM interview guide

Anduril is a defense technology company building autonomous systems (drones, counter-UAS, sensor networks) powered by its Lattice software platform. Its PM (and closely related Technical Program Manager) interviews lean heavily toward systems thinking, reliability, and mission impact rather than consumer "growth PM" framing, which sources repeatedly flag as the biggest mistake candidates make. Expect a recruiter screen (30 to 45 min on background and genuine motivation for defense work), a technical screen probing AI/ML, sensors, and distributed systems fluency, a product case round (designing for drones, surveillance, counter-UAS from first principles), a behavioral/leadership round on decision making under pressure and ambiguity, and an onsite loop with PMs, engineers, directors, and sometimes exects. The full process typically runs 2 to 4 weeks. Verbatim public PM-specific questions are relatively thin (Glassdoor lists only a handful and bot-blocks scraping), so much of the sourced detail below comes from PM-focused guides and the adjacent TPM interview track, which shares Anduril's program-ownership and technical-fluency bar. Note: the most detailed verbatim PM list comes from a single guide (sirjohnnymai.com), so treat those as representative prep scenarios rather than confirmed asked-verbatim questions; the Exponent items are drawn from reported candidate experiences.

The interview process

1. Recruiter phone screen (30 to 45 min). Background, technical interests, and a genuine read on your motivation for working in defense and how you feel about safety-critical and ethically weighty systems. Mission fit is screened early.
2. Technical screening (about 60 min). A senior engineer evaluates systems thinking and technical fluency: AI/ML basics (classification, object detection, model evaluation), sensor fusion, distributed systems, and fault tolerance. PMs are expected to reason about the tech, not just the user.
3. Product case interview (60 to 90 min). Core round: design a product or feature from first principles in Anduril's domain (drones, border surveillance, counter-UAS), with explicit attention to reliability, false positives, and operator UX rather than engagement or growth.
4. Behavioral and leadership (about 60 min). Decision making under pressure, navigating ambiguity and incomplete data, pushing back on engineering over safety, and earning trust with skeptical technical teams and demanding government customers.
5. Onsite / virtual loop (3 to 5 interviews). Final loop with PMs, engineers, directors, and sometimes executives. Mixes deeper product/systems scenarios, prioritization trade-offs, and customer-facing situations; quick turnaround, with the whole process spanning 2 to 4 weeks.

Likely PM interview questions

1. How would you design a software update system for a fleet of drones in remote locations with intermittent connectivity?Product sense
2. Propose a feature to improve battery life on an autonomous surveillance platform.Product sense
3. Design a feature for a border surveillance system that reduces false positives from wildlife.Product sense