# Senior Sourcing Engineer, Optics and Infrared Materials

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Waltham, Massachusetts
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,000-$212,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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.

Anduril Imaging builds electro-optical and infrared sensor systems that go on Anduril platforms as well as our own stand-alone products.

As a Senior Sourcing Engineer, you will own the supply chain outcomes behind those products. You will own supplier relationships end to end, from identifying a source and negotiating the agreement to standing up capacity and holding it through a ramp.

Responsibilities:

- Own suppliers end to end. Identify and select sources, run requests for quote, drive input to make-buy decisions, and serve as the commercial and technical owner of the relationship.

- Negotiate the commercial structure. Draft and negotiate pricing, capacity commitments, lead times, payment, warranty, and service terms.

- Build the cost model, then use it. Develop should-cost and clean-sheet models, run cost-breakdown analysis on quotes, and drive total cost of ownership across the lifecycle.

- Secure capacity ahead of ramp. Map supply network lead time and flexibility, place coverage against demand well before it is needed, and resolve capacity gaps before they become schedule problems.

- Engage engineering before the design locks. Give design for manufacturability feedback, influence specifications using supply intelligence on availability, lead time, and lifecycle health.

- De-risk the bill of material. Complete risk assessments, qualify alternates and second sources, drive commonality and supplier rationalization, and manage obsolescence.

- Escalate and clear blockers. Participate in program reviews and operational escalation forums.

- Carry compliance into the sourcing decision. Work country of origin, domestic content, defense acquisition regulation, export control, and rated order requirements into supplier selection and purchase order structure.

- Complete supplier qualification. Own the capability and authorization portions of supplier evaluation and coordinate with the Supplier Quality Organization.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience

- 8 or more years across sourcing engineering, commodity management, supplier development, supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, or cost engineering

- Experience owning supplier relationships that included both technical assessment and commercial negotiation

- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and CAD model and assemblies.

- Ability to travel a 10-25% of the time for vendor on-site visits

- Eligible to access export-controlled technical data under United States export control law

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

## Skills

### Required
- sourcing engineering
- commodity management
- supplier development
- supplier quality
- manufacturing engineering
- cost engineering
- engineering drawings
- CAD model
- export control

### Nice to have
- infrared or electro-optical systems
- precision optics
- photonics
- sensors
- high-precision hardware
- should-cost or clean-sheet cost modeling
- design-to-cost
- value engineering
- long-term agreements
- supply agreements
- capacity commitments

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