Altius - Product Sourcing Engineer

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 175,000; Full time

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Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Product Sourcing Engineer to drive strategic supply network development and cost management across product lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers and cross‑functionally with engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams.

The role requires 5+ years in electronics/mechanical design and advanced sourcing, with a focus on high‑tech, low‑volume production and TCO optimization. U.S. citizenship is required by contract.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices.
• Advanced sourcing activities including commodity/sourcing management.
• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or related technical degree preferred.
• U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier selection for a specific product using the approved supplier list.
• Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development through scoping, trade-off analysis, should-cost models, and joint design development.
• Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM with Quality & Manufacturing.
• Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correct to scale.
• Manage CAPEX throughout NPI.
• Conduct value‑stream mapping to optimize lead time and flexibility.
• Complete BOM risk assessment including alternate sourcing.
• Ensure vendor component qualifications are completed ahead of production.
• Reduce complexity through commonality optimization and supplier/rationalization.
• Lead cost engineering to converge bottom‑up cost to product cost and optimize TCO.
• Manage ad‑hoc cost issues such as tariffs and cost inflation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including production and manufacturing on the floor.

Skills

Sourcing management

Supplier development

Early supplier engagement

Value engineering / TCO

NPI procurement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

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.

Product Sourcing Engineer

Costa Mesa, CA
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 Launched Effects team at Anduril is responsible for scaling the manufacturing and delivery of the Altius family of systems (including the Altius-600 and Altius-700). As the premier Air-Launched Effects platform for the U.S. military and its allies, Altius is redefining modern warfare. These tube‑launched, autonomous aerial systems must be built to survive extreme deployment environments, requiring precision manufacturing of advanced composites, complex avionics, and modular payload integrations for ISR, Electronic Warfare, and kinetic strike capabilities.

We are a fast‑moving, mission‑driven group of manufacturing engineers, quality specialists, and production operations experts who refuse to accept traditional, slow defense manufacturing timelines. We continuously optimize our assembly lines, implement automated testing, design for manufacturing (DFM), and build resilient supply chains to deploy reliable systems to the front lines at unprecedented speed. If you want to work on a team where your production and manufacturing decisions directly impact global security, this is it.

ABOUT THE JOB

The Product 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
• 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 vendor 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
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, which requires regular interaction with production and manufacturing stakeholders and frequently working directly on the production floor.

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
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree preferred.
• U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations

US Salary Range $132,000—$175,000 USD

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.