# Senior Product Sourcing Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Product 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.

Responsibilities:

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

- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as concept scoping, feature trade-off/trade tables, should cost/clean sheet models, joint design development, simulation of mechanical & electronics designs.

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

- Manage CAPEX throughout NPI.

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

- Complete the BOM risk assessment, including alternate component sourcing.

- Ensure completion of all component qualifications, ahead of production.

- Reduce complexity: 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.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field.

- 8+ years of experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development, or design of electronics and/or mechanical devices.

- Domain expertise of value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level.

- Ability to travel 10% - 40% of the time, variable based on program needs.

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's degree or advanced technical degree in mechanical engineering.

- Deeper experience within design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices, advanced sourcing activities, supplier development, early supplier engagement.

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

- Exposure to working in a fast-paced, start-up environment.

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and overall well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain
- engineering
- sourcing engineering
- supplier engagement
- design of electronics
- mechanical devices
- value/procurement engineering
- TCO-related work

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering
- design & development of electronics
- advanced sourcing activities
- supplier development
- early supplier engagement
- high-tech products
- fast-paced start-up environment
- U.S. TS clearance

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