# Senior Sourcing Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Sydney, New South Wales
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior Sourcing Engineer, you will drive the strategic supply network development and cost management of Anduril's product hardware, across their lifecycles, by collaborating with suppliers and cross-functionally, including stakeholders in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.

- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as concept scoping, feature trade-off/trade tables, total cost of ownership modeling, and joint design development.

- Drive commercial development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalization, commodity pricing plan, and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost.

- Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with suppliers with high flexibility.

- Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale up manufacturing operations.

- Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier-related CAPEX throughout NPI.

- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility.

- Complete the BOM risk assessment and develop a plan per part analysis.

- Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders, ahead of production need dates.

- Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalization.

- Lead 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.

- Manage ad-hoc cost issues, e.g., tariffs/import export cost, and cost inflation.

Requirements:

- Background in design & development of mechanical and/or electronics devices.

- Experience in advanced sourcing activities, including positions working as a commodity/sourcing manager.

- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment.

- Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.

- Eligible to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.

## Skills

### Required
- supplier development
- value/procurement engineering
- TCO-related work
- mechanical and electronics devices
- advanced sourcing activities

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