Product Sourcing Engineer, Maritime

The Product 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 folks in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging our approved supplier list

- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as:

- Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility

- 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 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

- 3+ 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, variable based on program needs

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

- Experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development, or design of electronics and/or mechanical devices

- 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

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance