Head of Sensors & Radar Strategic Supply Chain

The role

The Head of Optical & Radar Strategic Supply Chain will architect and execute sourcing strategies for optical and radar commodities. This leader will manage a high-performing team to build a resilient supply chain from New Product Introduction to high-volume production.

What you will do

• Define and execute multi-year global sourcing strategies across sensor domains.
• Build, mentor, and lead a team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers.
• Drive sub-tier visibility and manage supplier investments in tooling and specialized machinery.
• Partner with engineering teams to qualify detector technology and influence design for manufacturing.
• Lead negotiations for master service agreements, development agreements, and long-term supply agreements.
• Identify single-source dependencies, geopolitical vulnerabilities, and capacity constraints.
• Drive risk mitigation plans, dual-sourcing strategies, and strategic buffer inventory models.
• Champion should-cost modeling, teardown analyses, and TCO evaluations.
• Conduct regular operational and strategic reviews with C-suite and executive leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in optical & radar strategic sourcing, global commodity management, or supply chain leadership within complex hardware manufacturing environments.
• 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.
• Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements and managing EO/IR architectures, radar/RF sub-tier manufacturing, or precision optics fabrication.
• Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles and negotiating complex multi-million-dollar commercial agreements.
• Deep understanding of New Product Introduction (NPI) workflows and scaling from prototype to high-rate production.
• Ability to travel up to 25%-50% domestically and internationally as needed.
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering, or physics
• Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry
• Well-versed in TCO and should costing analysis
• Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders
• Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security clearance

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.