Senior Sourcing Engineer, NPI
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
Job Summary
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 Andurils product hardware across their lifecycles by collaborating with suppliers and cross-functionally including stakeholders in engineering quality and manufacturing.
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.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product leveraging approved supplier list.
- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as:
- Concept scoping to quickly solidify requirements
- Feature trade-off / trade tables
- Total Cost of Ownership modeling
- Joint design development via clear statements of work
- Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
- Drive commercial
- Development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge supplier rationalization commodity pricing plan and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost
- Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM working with Quality & Manufacturing to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility
- Accountable for all NPI component procurement on-time and correctly to scale up manufacturing operations
- Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier related CAPEX throughout NPI
- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
- Complete the BOM risk assessment and develop plan per part analysis
- Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders ahead of production need dates
- Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalization
- 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
- Manage ad-hoc cost issues e.g. tariffs / import export cost and cost inflation
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Has background within:
- Design & development of mechanical and/or electronics devices
- Advanced sourcing activities including positions working as a commodity/sourcing manager
- Supplier development (technology process supply chain etc.)
- Early supplier engagement ahead of product/engineering requirement realization
- Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level
- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix low-volume environment
- Bachelors degree in engineering (BSME BSEE) or other related technical degree.
- Must be eligible to obtain a US clearance
US Salary Range
$146000 - $194000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
Benefits
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Required Experience:
Senior IC