Altius - Senior Product Sourcing Engineer

Anduril-1; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, headquartered in California, is seeking a Senior Sourcing Engineer to drive the strategic supply network for its Altius hardware. You will partner with engineering, quality, and manufacturing to optimize supplier selections and BOM management, enabling fast, reliable production across the product lifecycle.

The role emphasizes early supplier engagement, cost engineering, and achieving low TCO while scaling with high-mix, low-volume electronics or mechanical devices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in design and development of electronics or mechanical devices.
• Advanced sourcing activities and commodity management experience.
• Early supplier engagement before requirements are defined.
• Value/ procurement engineering or TCO work at component/product level.
• Experience with high-tech products in high-mix, low-volume environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME/BSEE) or related field.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct supplier selection using the approved list and engage strategic suppliers.
• Develop, consolidate manufacturing BOM with Quality & Manufacturing for ramp.
• Lead cost engineering to converge cost curves and maximize total cost of ownership.
• Manage NPI component procurement and CAPEX throughout the program lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production, to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Electronics design

Mechanical design

Sourcing

NPI procurement

Value/TC0 engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Altius - Senior Product Sourcing Engineer

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.

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 Senior 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:

• 7+ years of experience, ideally has background within:
  • Design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices
• Advanced sourcing activities, including stints as commodity/sourcing managers
• 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

$146,000 - $194,000 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:

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