Anduril Industries
Product Sourcing Engineer (Altius Launch Team)
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Product Sourcing Engineer to drive strategic supply chain development and cost management for the Altius family of autonomous aerial systems. You'll collaborate across engineering, quality, and manufacturing to accelerate product development, manage new product introduction procurement, and optimize supply networks for rapid, reliable defense manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Conduct supplier selection and partner with strategic suppliers on concept scoping, design trade-offs, and joint development activities
- Develop and consolidate manufacturing BOMs working with Quality and Manufacturing teams to scale production with high flexibility
- Manage new product introduction component procurement, CAPEX, and on-time delivery to support production ramp
- Perform value-stream mapping and BOM risk assessments to optimize supply network lead time, flexibility, and component sourcing
- Lead vendor component qualifications and cost engineering activities to meet production requirements and cost targets
- Drive complexity reduction through commonality optimization and supplier rationalization across product lines
What they're looking for
- Supply chain and procurement strategy
- New product introduction (NPI) management
- Bill of materials (BOM) development and optimization
- Cost engineering and should-cost modeling
- Value-stream mapping and lean manufacturing
- Supplier management and vendor qualification
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- CAPEX management and budget accountability
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience managing supplier selection and qualification for new product introductions—what metrics did you use to evaluate success?
- Describe a time you led a should-cost or clean-sheet costing exercise; how did you drive convergence between targets and actual supplier quotes?