Description
The 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.
Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical field, 3+ 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 up to 25% 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, including stints as commodity/sourcing managers, supplier development (technology, process, supply chain, etc.), early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realization, 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.