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Salary: USD 129,000 - 171,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company develops Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system for real-time command and control, and is fielding next-generation Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for seabed exploration with ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platforms.
The Product Sourcing Engineer drives strategic supply network development and cost management of Anduril's product hardware across their lifecycles through cross-functional collaboration with suppliers, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Conduct supplier selection leveraging approved supplier lists
- Partner with strategic suppliers on concept scoping, feature trade-offs, should-cost modeling, and joint design development
- Develop and consolidate manufacturing BOMs with Quality and Manufacturing to support flexible production ramp-up internally and with suppliers
- Manage all NPI component procurement on-time and at scale, including CAPEX management throughout NPI
- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
- Complete BOM risk assessments with alternate component sourcing strategies
- Ensure component qualifications are completed ahead of production
- Drive complexity reduction through commonality optimization and component/supplier rationalization
- Lead cost engineering activities to converge bottom-up cost curves to product cost targets, maximizing total cost of ownership (TCO) across product lifecycle
- Manage ad-hoc cost issues including tariffs, import/export costs, and cost inflation
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development, or design of electronics and/or mechanical devices
- Design and development experience with electronics and/or mechanical devices
- Advanced sourcing activities, including commodity/sourcing manager roles
- Supplier development expertise (technology, process, supply chain)
- Early supplier engagement experience ahead of product/engineering requirement realization
- Domain expertise in value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at component and product level
- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in high-mix, low-volume environments
- Some exposure to start-up environments
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or related technical degree; advanced technical degree or MBA strongly preferred
- Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance
