Senior Product Sourcing Engineer, Tactical Recon & Strike

Anduril
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 146,000 - 194,000 annuallyFunction: Procurement & SourcingExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Cross-functional collaboration","Cost engineering","Supplier engagement","Value-stream mapping","Cost management"]

Drive strategic supply network development and cost management for the Tactical Recon & Strike product portfolio across the lifecycle. You’ll select and develop suppliers, run cost engineering and value-stream mapping, and coordinate trade-offs, SOWs, simulations, manufacturing BOM consolidation, CAPEX planning, and component qualification. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and manufacturing to reduce complexity, manage BOM risks with alternate sourcing, and ensure cost convergence to maximize total cost of ownership.

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Senior Product Sourcing Engineer, Tactical Recon & Strike

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Job Summary

Drive strategic supply network development and cost management for the Tactical Recon & Strike product portfolio across the lifecycle. You’ll select and develop suppliers, run cost engineering and value-stream mapping, and coordinate trade-offs, SOWs, simulations, manufacturing BOM consolidation, CAPEX planning, and component qualification. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and manufacturing to reduce complexity, manage BOM risks with alternate sourcing, and ensure cost convergence to maximize total cost of ownership.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Procurement & Sourcing
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct supplier selection for a specific product using the approved supplier list.
  • •Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development, including concept scoping, feature trade-offs, should-cost/clean-sheet modeling, and joint design development via SOWs.
  • •Consolidate and ramp the manufacturing BOM with Quality & Manufacturing, including supplier flexibility, CAPEX management through NPI, and simulation support for mechanical & electronics designs.
  • •Perform value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility, and complete BOM risk assessments including alternate component sourcing.
  • •Lead cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, manage component qualifications ahead of production, and reduce complexity via commonality optimization and supplier rationalization.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or a related technical field.
  • •6+ years of experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development, or design of electronics and/or mechanical devices.
  • •Domain expertise in 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:6+ yearsDefense technologyElectronicsMechanical devicesSupplier development
Education:Bachelor's in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
Skills:Cross-functional collaborationCost engineeringSupplier engagementValue-stream mappingCost management

Eligibility

Security Clearance:U.S. TS

Company Brief

Anduril
Designs and builds advanced defense systems combining autonomous aircraft, sensors, and AI-driven software for military and national security applications, focused on modernizing battlefield capabilities and distributed sensing.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Costa Mesa, United States
Founded: 2017
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