Senior Strategic Sourcing Engineer, Intelligence Systems

The role

The Senior Strategic Product Sourcing Engineer drives strategic supply network development and cost management for product hardware. You will own the end to end supply chain for the Intelligence & Space business line through engineering support, vendor onboarding, and negotiating the total Bill of Material.

What you will do

• Deep dive into engineering Bill of Material to ensure parts can be sourced at target levels
• Conduct supplier selection and onboard unique vendors
• Drive on time delivery using unique solutions
• Partner with strategic suppliers for concept scoping and feature trade-offs
• Utilize should cost and clean sheet models
• Conduct joint design development via statements of work
• Drive development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM
• Manage total cost of the program including NPI and mass production
• Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network
• Complete BOM risk assessment and component qualifications

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical field
• 8+ 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
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Ability to travel 10% - 40% of the time
• Ability to relocate to be onsite in Ashville, OH

Nice to have

• Master's degree or advanced technical degree
• Deeper experience 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
• Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment
• Exposure to working in a fast-pace, start-up environment
• Direct experience in the Space industry
• Experience negotiating and managing commercial subcontracts

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Ability to relocate to be onsite in Ashville, OH
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

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.