Strategic Supplier Engineering Manager - Equity Eligible

Anduril; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Supplier Engineering Manager to drive strategic supply network development and cost management for product hardware across lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and manufacturing to accelerate development and scale production.

Ideal candidates have electronics design and advanced sourcing experience, plus a track record in NPI procurement, cost engineering, and achieving TCO goals in high-mix,

Qualifications

• Background in electronics device design and development.
• Advanced sourcing activities including commodity/sourcing manager experience.
• Supplier development in technology, process, supply chain.
• Early supplier engagement before product/engineering requirement realisation.
• Domain expertise in value/procurement engineering or TCO at component/product level.
• Experience in high-tech products in high-mix, low-volume environments.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or related technical degree.
• Must be eligible to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier selection for a product using approved supplier list.
• Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via scoping, trade-offs, and clear statements of work (SOW).
• Model Total Cost of Ownership and drive cost efficiency.
• Lead joint design development with suppliers via clear SOWs and collaboration.
• Simulate mechanical and electronics designs with suppliers to validate concepts.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy using market knowledge and commodity pricing.
• Consolidate manufacturing BOM with Quality & Manufacturing to ramp production.
• Own NPI component procurement ensuring on-time availability for production.
• Manage CAPEX verification for supplier-related initiatives during NPI.
• Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility.
• Complete BOM risk assessment and develop part-level analysis plans.
• Ensure component qualifications are completed ahead of production need dates.
• Reduce complexity via commonality optimization and supplier rationalisation.
• Lead cost engineering to converge bottom-up costs to product cost, addressing tariffs/cost inflation.

Skills

Electronics design experience

Sourcing management

Supplier development

Value engineering / cost engineering

NPI supply chain

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or related technical degree

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Supplier Engineering Manager to drive strategic supply network development and cost management for product hardware across lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and manufacturing to accelerate development and scale production.

Ideal candidates have electronics design and advanced sourcing experience, plus a track record in NPI procurement, cost engineering, and achieving TCO goals in high-mix,