Senior Sourcing Engineer
Anduril· Manufacturing : Undersea Dominance - Production : Supply Chain
Hybrid (Sydney)full-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Senior Sourcing Engineer responsible for strategic supply network development and cost management of Anduril’s product hardware across lifecycles, partnering with suppliers and cross-functional teams to drive NPI sourcing, BOM optimization, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.
- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via concept scoping, feature trade-off, TCO modeling, joint design development, and simulation of mechanical & electronics designs.
- Drive commercial development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalisation, and commodity pricing plan.
- Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with suppliers with high flexibility.
- Accountable for all NPI component procurement, on-time and correctly, to scale up manufacturing operations.
- Manage the request for and associated verification of supplier related CAPEX throughout NPI.
- Conduct value-stream mapping to optimize supply network lead time and flexibility.
- Complete BOM risk assessment and develop per-part analysis plan.
- Follow through completion of component qualifications by relevant stakeholders ahead of production need dates.
- Reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimization & supplier rationalisation.
- Lead all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximizing TCO across the product lifecycle.
- Manage ad-hoc cost issues (tariffs / import export cost, cost inflation).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.
Skills
Required:Supplier selectionSourcing strategyNPI component procurementBOM managementCAPEX managementCost engineeringRisk managementEarly supplier engagement
Nice to have:Value-stream mappingSupplier development
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants included in total compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits package (health, recovery, and other supports)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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