Senior Product Sourcing Engineer, Advanced Effects

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Hardware Operations : Supply Chain : Product Sourcing Engineering

This role is for a Senior Product Sourcing Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The primary focus is on strategic supply network development, cost management, and supplier selection for product hardware throughout its lifecycle. This involves collaborating with engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams, driving product development with suppliers, managing Bills of Materials (BOM), and leading cost engineering activities. While the company utilizes AI and advanced technologies like computer vision and sensor fusion in its products, this specific role is centered on the sourcing and supply chain aspects of hardware development, not on building or directly working with AI/ML models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging our approved supplier list
  2. Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as: Concept scoping to quickly solidify requirements, Feature trade-off / trade tables, Should cost / Clean sheet models, Joint design development, via clear statements of work, Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
  3. Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility
  4. Manage the CAPEX throughout NPI
  5. Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
  • 8+ 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
  • Ability to relocate to Costa Mesa, CA

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or advanced technical degree in mechanical engineering
  • 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
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ 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