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Salary: USD 132,000 - 198,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The company develops AI-powered systems and autonomous platforms for military applications.
You will join the Maneuver Dominance team, an early-stage autonomous air vehicle (AAV) program based at the Costa Mesa headquarters. This team is re-inventing an existing platform through heavy modification and integration of advanced autonomy, mission systems, and payloads. You'll work alongside mechanical, structural, electrical, and software engineers in a lean, high-ownership culture where the entire vehicle team sits side-by-side, iterating quickly and making real-time decisions.
As Supply Chain Lead, you will drive strategic supply network development and cost management of the Maneuver Dominance product portfolio across their lifecycles, collaborating with suppliers and cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and manufacturing.
Key responsibilities include:
- Conduct supplier selection for specific products, leveraging the approved supplier list
- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development through concept scoping, feature trade-offs, should-cost modeling, joint design development, and simulation of mechanical and electronics designs
- Drive development and consolidation of manufacturing BOMs, working with Quality and Manufacturing to ramp production internally and with suppliers
- Manage CAPEX throughout new product introduction (NPI)
- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
- Complete BOM risk assessments and identify alternate component sourcing
- Ensure completion of all component qualifications ahead of production
- Reduce complexity 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 the product lifecycle
- Manage ad-hoc cost issues such as tariffs, import/export costs, and cost inflation
REQUIREMENTS:
- Master's degree or advanced technical degree in mechanical engineering
- Deeper experience within: design and development of electronics and/or mechanical devices; advanced sourcing activities including commodity/sourcing manager roles; supplier development (technology, process, supply chain); early supplier engagement ahead of product/engineering requirement realization
- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment
- Exposure to working in a fast-paced, start-up environment
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
