Supplier Engineering Manager [Electrical]New

Anduril; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Supplier Engineering Manager to lead strategic supply network development and cost management across product lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers, engineering, quality, and manufacturing to drive early engagement, design for cost, and achieve target TCO.

From concept scoping to BOM consolidation and NPI procurement, you will shape sourcing strategies, manage CAPEX, and push toward scalable production with high flexibility.

Qualifications

• Background in electronics design and development.
• Experience with advanced sourcing and commodity management.
• Early supplier engagement before product realization.
• Value or procurement engineering at component or product level.
• Ability to work in high-tech, high-mix/low-volume environments.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field; NV1 clearance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier selection using approved supplier lists.
• Collaborate with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development.
• Define concepts, trade-offs, and total cost of ownership models.
• Develop joint design through clear statements of work.
• Simulate mechanical and electronics designs with suppliers.
• Drive commercial and sourcing strategy for efficiency and cost.
• Consolidate BOM with Quality and Manufacturing to ramp production.
• Oversee NPI component procurement for on-time production.
• Manage CAPEX verification with stakeholders during NPI.
• Value-stream map to optimize lead time and flexibility.
• Complete BOM risk assessments and per-part analysis.

Skills

Electronics design

Sourcing management

Value engineering

NPI procurement

High-mix low-volume experience

Early supplier engagement

Cost optimization

Australian NV1 clearance

Education

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

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Supplier Engineering Manager 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 stakeholders in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.
• Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as:
• Concept scoping to quickly solidify requirements
• Feature trade-off / trade tables
• Total Cost of Ownership modeling
• Joint design development, via clear statements of work
• Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
• Drive commercial
• Development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalisation, commodity pricing plan and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost
• Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our suppliers with high flexibility
• Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale up manufacturing operations
• Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier related CAPEX throughout NPI
• Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
• Complete the BOM risk assessment and develop plan per part analysis
• Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders, ahead of production need dates
• Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalisation
• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ideally has background within:
• Design & development of electronics devices
• Advanced sourcing activities, including positions working as a commodity/sourcing manager
• Early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realisation
• Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level
• Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.
• Must be eligible to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.