# Senior Cost Value Engineer

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**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 Cost Value 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.

Key responsibilities include conducting supplier selection, partnering with strategic suppliers, managing CAPEX throughout NPI, conducting value-stream mapping, completing BOM risk assessments, ensuring completion of all component qualifications, reducing complexity through commonality optimization and component/supplier rationalization, and 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.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical field, 5+ 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, and ability to relocate if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree or advanced technical degree, 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-pace, start-up environment, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- Supplier selection
- Partnering with strategic suppliers
- Managing CAPEX
- Value-stream mapping
- BOM risk assessments
- Component qualifications
- Commonality optimization
- Cost engineering

### Nice to have
- Design and development of electronics and/or mechanical devices
- Advanced sourcing activities
- Supplier development
- Early supplier engagement
- High-tech product development
- Fast-paced start-up environment
- U.S. TS clearance

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