Altius - Product Sourcing Engineer

InvestedintheMission; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a Sourcing Engineer to drive strategic supply network development and cost management across product lifecycles.

You will collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams to optimize BOMs, achieve on-time NPI procurement, and manage CAPEX while delivering cutting-edge defense technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or related technical field.
• Advanced technical degree or MBA strongly preferred.
• U.S. Person status required to access export-controlled data.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier selection using the approved supplier list.
• Collaborate with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development.
• Create concept scopes and trade-off tables; develop should-cost and clean-sheet models.
• Lead joint design development with clear statements of work.
• Simulate mechanical and electronics designs.
• Develop and consolidate a manufacturing BOM to ramp production.
• Own NPI component procurement on-time and correctly.
• Manage CAPEX across NPI.
• Value-stream map to optimize lead time and flexibility.
• Complete BOM risk assessments including alternate sourcing.
• Ensure component qualifications ahead of production.
• Reduce complexity via commonality and supplier rationalization.
• Lead cost engineering to converge cost curves; address tariffs and inflation.

Skills

Advanced sourcing

Supplier development

Early supplier engagement

Value / procurement engineering

TCO optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Advanced technical degree or MBA

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.

ABOUT THE JOB

The Sourcing Engineer 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 folks in engineering, quality, and manufacturing.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging our 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
• Should cost / Clean sheet models
• Joint design development, via clear statements of work
• Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
• 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
• Manage the CAPEX throughout NPI
• Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility
• Complete the BOM risk assessment, include alternate component sourcing, etc.
• Ensure completion of all component qualifications, ahead of production
• Reduce complexity: commonality optimization & component/supplier rationalization
• 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:

• 5+ years of experience, ideally has background 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
• 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
• Some exposure working in a start-up environment
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree preferred. Advanced technical degree or MBA strongly preferred
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

US Salary Range: $111,000 - $147,000 USD

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:

Benefits

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.