Sourcing Engineering Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><p>The Sourcing Engineer Lead will lead a small, high-performing team in executing sourcing initiatives. As a lead, leverage extensive experience in negotiating and securing strategic commercial agreements with demonstrated success in driving cost savings and enhancing supply chain flexibility through high-impact negotiations that support manufacturing scale-up and long-term operational goals. <br><br><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Leverage robust negotiation experience to secure strategic supplier agreements, ensuring favorable terms that support scalable manufacturing operations and drive cost-efficiency.</li> <li>Develop and lead supplier selection for specific products using our approved supplier list and/or identify new partners</li> <li>Collaborate and lead the partnership with strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders to accelerate product development through:</li> <ul> <li>Concept scoping for rapid requirement validation</li> <li>Feature trade-off analysis and trade tables</li> <li>Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling</li> <li>Joint design development under clear statements of work</li> <li>Simulation of mechanical electronics designs</li> <li>Driving and owning the outcome of commercial negotiations with internal stakeholders such as program management and legal personnel</li> </ul> <li>Develop and execute sourcing strategies using market insights, supplier rationalisation, and commodity pricing plans across all product lines</li> <li>Lead and drive cost engineering efforts to converge cost models with product targets while maximizing TCO.</li> <li>Collaboratively drive on-time availability of NPI component procurement and ensure suppliers execute their manufacturing scale-up plans effectively by monitoring progress, enforcing quality standards, and coordinating closely to meet target timelines.</li> <li>Lead and own complete BOM risk assessments and implement mitigation plans.</li> <li>Collaborate with stakeholders to reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimisation component/supplier rationalisation.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p><br><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Extensive experience in negotiating and securing strategic commercial agreements with demonstrated success in driving cost savings and enhancing supply chain flexibility through high-impact negotiations that support manufacturing scale-up and long-term operational goals.</li> <li>Ideally has background within:</li> <ul> <li>Design development of mechanical and/or electronics devices</li> <li>Advanced sourcing activities, including positions working as a commodity/sourcing manager</li> <li>Supplier development (technology, process, supply chain, etc.)</li> <li>Early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realisation</li> </ul> <li>Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component product level</li> <li>Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in engine ... (truncated, view full listing at source)