Senior Product Support Engineer
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Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Senior Product Sourcing Engineer
Costa Mesa CA
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 centurys most innovative companies to the defense industry Anduril is changing how military systems are designed built and sold. Andurils 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.
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 centurys most innovative companies to the defense industry Anduril is changing how military systems are designed built and sold. Andurils 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.
ABOUT THE TEAM
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Launched Effects team at Anduril is responsible for scaling the manufacturing and delivery of the Altius family of systems (including the Altius-600 and Altius-700). As the premier Air-Launched Effects platform for the U.S. military and its allies Altius is redefining modern warfare. These tube-launched autonomous aerial systems must be built to survive extreme deployment environments requiring precision manufacturing of advanced composites complex avionics and modular payload integrations for ISR Electronic Warfare and kinetic strike capabilities.
We are a fast-moving mission-driven group of manufacturing engineers quality specialists and production operations experts who refuse to accept traditional slow defense manufacturing timelines. We continuously optimize our assembly lines implement automated testing design for manufacturing (DFM) and build resilient supply chains to deploy reliable systems to the front lines at unprecedented speed. If you want to work on a team where your production and manufacturing decisions directly impact global security this is it.
ABOUT THE JOB
The Senior 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 folks in engineering quality and manufacturing.
WHAT YOULL DO:
- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product leveraging our 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
- Should cost / Clean sheet models
- Joint design development via clear statements of work
- 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
- Manage the CAPEX throughout NPI
- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
- Complete the BOM risk assessment include alternate component sourcing etc.
- Ensure completion of all vendor component qualifications ahead of production
- Reduce complexity: 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:
- 7 years of experience ideally has background 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
- 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 preferred.
- U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
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
At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
