Strategic Sourcing Engineer — Hardware & NPI

Telemetry Today LLC; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Sourcing Engineer to drive strategic supply network development and cost management across lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and manufacturing to optimize sourcing for hardware products, from concept through production ramp.

You will lead BOM development with internal teams, engage suppliers early, and manage NPI procurement and CAPEX while seeking opportunities to reduce TCO.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development.
• Design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices.
• Advanced sourcing activities, including 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.
• Some exposure working in a start-up environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree. Advanced technical degree or MBA strongly preferred.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• 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, trade-off analyses, and should-cost models.
• Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM with Quality & Manufacturing.
• 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, including alternate sourcing.
• Ensure completion of all component qualifications ahead of production.
• Reduce complexity: commonality optimization and supplier rationalization.
• Lead cost engineering to converge bottom-up cost curve to product cost and total cost of ownership.
• Manage ad-hoc cost issues such as tariffs / import/export costs and cost inflation.

Skills

Sourcing engineering

Supplier engagement

Cost engineering

NPI procurement

Value engineering

Education

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

Advanced technical degree or MBA

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Sourcing Engineer to drive strategic supply network development and cost management across lifecycles. You will collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams including engineering, quality, and manufacturing to optimize sourcing for hardware products, from concept through production ramp.

You will lead BOM development with internal teams, engage suppliers early, and manage NPI procurement and CAPEX while seeking opportunities to reduce TCO.