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Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
Aug 8, 2025
Salary
$166,000–$220,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Sensors/Optics

Job description

The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Sensors/Optics is the domain expert for the sensor/optics commodities for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products. This role will be responsible for developing new supplier and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products, as well as existing products to improve their technologies, cost, and quality. There is broad internal cross functional partnership to evaluate supplier opportunities, while ensuring commercial agreements, intellectual property, and statement of works are accurate and well established prior to pipelining.

Job responsibilities

  • Develop and execute commodity strategies for sensors/optics focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience
  • End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts, when needed, at the right cost
  • Act as the sourcing expert for sensors/optics manufacturing
  • Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for sensors/optics
  • Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution
  • Partner with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs and customize product and manufacturing requirements
  • Perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdown from data. Deep dive into every element of the supply chain and make data-driven decisions based on TCO
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, execute against build milestones, and lead sourcing activities

Job requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of sensors/optics manufacturing, and/or sourcing engineering
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
  • Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA
  • Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical or mechanical engineering
  • Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry
  • Well-versed in TCO analysis to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection, in a product-based ecosystem
  • Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders
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