# Staff Product Sourcing Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Huntsville, Alabama
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,000-$191,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

## About the Team

The Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team is on a mission to build next-generation solid rocket motors for a safer, more connected world. To achieve their vision of becoming a large-volume provider of tactical rocket motors, they will develop differentiated products and services that maximize their customers' capabilities, and they will establish and maintain a reputation of Quality and Reliability.

## About the Job

The Staff 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 specific products, leveraging the approved supplier list.

- Partner 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

- 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 engineering or other technical field.

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

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

- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Huntsville, AL.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree or advanced technical degree.

- Deeper experience 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

- Ideal candidate has worked in a highly regulated environment, preferably energetics and solid rocket motor (SRM) production.

- 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

- Competitive salary: $143,000-$191,000 USD

- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Master's degree
- advanced technical degree
- design & development of electronics
- advanced sourcing activities
- commodity/sourcing managers
- supplier development
- early supplier engagement
- highly regulated environment
- energetics and solid rocket motor (SRM) production

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