Senior Sourcing Engineer, Commercial

<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>Anduril is seeking a Sourcing Engineer to join our team in Costa Mesa, California. The 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 stakeholders in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.</p> <p>The right person for this role can demonstrate experience working in a fast-paced, resource-limited environment such as defense manufacturing, aircraft maintenance or advanced technology manufacturing environments. If you are someone who thrives in such an environment, then this role is for you.<br><br><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li>Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.</li> <li>Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as:</li> <ul> <li>Concept scoping to quickly solidify requirements</li> <li>Feature trade-off / trade tables</li> <li>Total Cost of Ownership modeling</li> <li>Joint design development, via clear statements of work</li> <li>Simulation of mechanical electronics designs</li> <li>Drive commercial</li> </ul> <li>Development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalization, commodity pricing plan and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost</li> <li>Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility</li> <li>Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale up manufacturing operations</li> <li>Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier related CAPEX throughout NPI</li> <li>Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility</li> <li>Complete the BOM risk assessment and develop plan per part analysis</li> <li>Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders, ahead of production need dates</li> <li>Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization component/supplier rationalization</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> <li>Manage ad-hoc cost issues e.g., tariffs / import export cost, and cost inflation</li> </ul> <p><br><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li>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 realization</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 engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.</li> <li>Must be eligible to obtain a US clearance</l ... (truncated, view full listing at source)