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Salary: USD 161,000 - 212,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building electro-optical and infrared sensor systems for military platforms. The Imaging division produces precision optics, cooled infrared detectors, custom electronics, and tight-tolerance electromechanical assemblies, with several products transitioning from development into rate production.
As Senior Global Supply Manager, you will own end-to-end supply chain outcomes for these sensor products. You will manage supplier relationships from identification and negotiation through capacity ramp, with deep responsibility for infrared optics commodities including germanium crystal, chalcogenide glass, lens fabrication, optical coatings, detector assemblies, and cryocoolers. This role carries significant exposure to export policy, critical mineral dependencies, and thin upstream supply bases—you will reach past tier-one suppliers into feedstock layers, model material price scenarios, and structure forward positions and consignment arrangements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own suppliers end-to-end: identify and select sources, run RFQs, drive make-buy decisions, and serve as commercial and technical owner of relationships across uncoordinated program paths.
- Negotiate commercial structures: draft and negotiate pricing, capacity commitments, lead times, payment, warranty, and service terms; build long-term agreements that secure capacity.
- Develop and use cost models: build should-cost and clean-sheet models, run cost-breakdown analysis, drive total cost of ownership, and reconcile bill-of-material cost against finance.
- Secure capacity ahead of ramp: map supply network lead time and flexibility, place coverage against demand well in advance, and resolve capacity gaps before they become schedule problems.
- Engage engineering early: provide design-for-manufacturability feedback and influence specifications using supply intelligence on availability, lead time, and lifecycle health.
- De-risk the bill of material: complete risk assessments, qualify alternates and second sources, drive commonality and supplier rationalization, manage obsolescence.
- Escalate and clear blockers: participate in program reviews and operational escalation forums, triage supply disruptions, resolve shortages, drive supplier issues to conclusion.
- Carry compliance into sourcing: work country of origin, domestic content, defense acquisition regulation, export control, and rated order requirements into supplier selection and PO structure.
- Complete supplier qualification: own capability and authorization portions of supplier evaluation and coordinate with Supplier Quality Organization.
The team is small and growing. You will work in a fast-moving environment where processes are still being built.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, or related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years across sourcing engineering, commodity management, supplier development, supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, or cost engineering
- Experience owning supplier relationships that included both technical assessment and commercial negotiation
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and CAD models and assemblies
- Ability to travel 10-25% of the time for vendor on-site visits
- Eligible to access export-controlled technical data under United States export control law
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. secret clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced technical degree
- Experience in infrared or electro-optical systems, precision optics, photonics, sensors, or other high-precision hardware
- Should-cost or clean-sheet cost modeling, design-to-cost, or value engineering work
- Experience taking a product from development into rate production, particularly in high-mix low-volume environments
- Experience negotiating long-term agreements, supply agreements, or capacity commitments
- Familiarity with defense acquisition regulation flowdowns, export control, rated orders, country of origin, or domestic content requirements
- Experience in a fast-moving company where the process was still being built
