Product Manager (DefenseOS)

Join Applied Intuition as a Product Manager for DefenseOS, where you will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a defense operating system derived from our commercial automotive VehicleOS product. You will drive customer discovery, requirements definition, prioritization, and collaborate closely with engineering, design, and operations. This is an individual-contributor role, and you will have a significant impact on the scope, sequencing, field-readiness, and adoption of the DefenseOS product.

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for DefenseOS, defining how Applied's commercial VehicleOS is adapted into a navy warship operating system.
• Lead customer and user discovery directly with Navy program offices, operators, and crews to translate operational needs, acquisition requirements, and field constraints into a prioritized product roadmap.
• Define the product strategy for a zonal architecture, including how it integrates with existing defense-unique systems built by primes, and make decisions on what to bridge and in what sequence.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment, and the ability to make and defend trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope
• 8+ years of product management experience shipping complex technical products, including owning a product line end to end, ideally platforms spanning both hardware and software, real-time/embedded, or systems-of-systems
• Thrives as an IC — comfortable owning a product area and driving cross-functional outcomes through influence rather than managing direct reports
• Skilled at customer and user discovery: translating ambiguous operational problems into clear, prioritized requirements
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience; advanced degree or deep technical background a plus
• US citizenship is required. You must already hold, or be eligible to receive, an active US Top Secret security clearance upon onboarding to this role
• Experience defining product strategy for integrating with legacy, proprietary, or closed third-party systems that lack modern software and data interfaces — deciding what to bridge and how to sequence the integration work
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including clear status, risk, and decision communication to senior leadership
• Strong technical literacy — enough to engage credibly with engineers on architecture trade-offs (e.g., zonal versus federated domain architectures, hardware/software integration, interfaces and data flow) and make informed scope decisions, without managing the implementation
• Demonstrated ability to own a product end to end as an individual contributor: vision, roadmap, requirements, prioritization, launch, and iteration against measurable outcomes
• Product management (or equivalent) experience on software-defined vehicles or analogous platforms where a zonal architecture and centralized compute replaced distributed, domain-based controllers
• Familiarity with naval/maritime subsystems (combat, C5I, HM&E), DoD acquisition and requirements processes, and delivery in regulated environments (RMF/ATO, IL5/IL6); prior naval or operational experience a plus
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles