Product Sourcing Engineer
About the team
The Sourcing Engineer drives the strategic supply network development and cost management of Anduril’s product hardware, across their lifecycles, by collaborating with suppliers and cross-functionally, including folks in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.
About the job
The Sourcing Engineer is responsible for:
- Conducting supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging our approved supplier list
- Partnering with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as:
- Concept scoping to quickly solidify requirements
- Feature trade-off / trade tables
- Should cost / Clean sheet models
- Joint design development, via clear statements of work
- Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
- Driving the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility
- Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale
- Managing the CAPEX throughout NPI
- Conducting value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
- Completing the BOM risk assessment, including alternate component sourcing, etc.
- Ensuring completion of all component qualifications, ahead of production
- Reducing complexity: commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalization
- Leading all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) across the product lifecycle
- Managing ad-hoc cost issues e.g., tariffs / import export cost, and cost inflation
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience, ideally has background within:
- Design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices
- Advanced sourcing activities, including stints as commodity/sourcing managers
- Supplier development (technology, process, supply chain, etc.)
- Early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realization
- Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level
- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment
- Some exposure working in a start-up environment
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree preferred. Advanced technical degree or MBA strongly preferred
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
US Salary Range
$111,000 - $147,000 USD
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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