2027 Early Career Supply Chain Engineer

About the Role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company committed to transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. This early career position will support the Supply Chain group in strategic planning, long-term supplier selection, and negotiations. The role requires collaboration with procurement, engineering, finance, legal teams, and third-party suppliers, alongside an interest in industry dynamics, business negotiation and pricing, manufacturing processes, and risk mitigation. The position requires the ability to start full-time in 2027.

Key Responsibilities

• Demand & Material Planning:
• Collaborate and support in the development and rollout of business solutions related to demand and material planning.
• Support enhancement and optimization of MRP system inputs, outputs, and engine logic, and integration into ERP modules.
• Develop analytics and dashboards for demand and material planning.
• Identify material gaps and supplier risk.
• Aid the configuration team with BOM errors, sparing contract requirements, and SC master data requirements.
• Support the Program team with right-to-left planning and supply chain milestone checkoff procedures.
• Procurement:
• Optimize an RFQ system and upstream data flows into the Supply Chain landscape.
• Develop tools to support multi-tier quoting, advanced sourcing, and enhanced Supplier Collaboration and Interaction.
• Build Sourcing & Cost Trajectory analyses and insight tools.
• Purchasing:
• Support the Buying team with specific Purchasing SOPs and training material.
• Troubleshoot Part/BOM issues.
• Develop part availability tracking dashboards and ad-hoc analytics.
• Enhance the deployed Purchase Request process to automate Purchasing workflows and traceability.
• Logistics, Warehouse & Supplier Quality:
• Optimize WMS/QMS systems and associated integrated processes to enhance inventory accuracy and build readiness.
• Support compliance and sparing audits.
• Work with System teams on Inventory analytics for period-end/ad-hoc requests.
• Operational Scale & Supply Chain Health:
• Document Supply Chain processes for internal SMEs and external Supplier collaborators.
• Develop Doc change control and rollout procedures.
• Support the development of a comprehensive Supplier Scorecard and integrate it into the Supplier Portal system landscape.
• Develop a risk assessment supplier profile and health-check mechanism for scale and risk mitigation.
• Aid the development of Compliance Requirements related to Federal and/or Industry-specific regulations and guidelines.
• Develop and Manage Supply Chain Onboarding material and checklists.
• Miscellaneous/Collaborative:
• Liaise between Business and IT groups to gather and clarify requirements.
• Support sprint planning and end-user testing and training.
• Perform end-user application/system/process testing and report out.
• Support the effort to develop a global and comprehensive Supply Chain digital ecosystem pipeline and capability roadmap.
• Collaborate with the Data team on data flow triage and issue-resolution for streamlined and accurate analytics.
• Develop strong familiarity with the Supply Chain end-user base, their data and system usage, and feedback to gather enhancement requirements.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must be pursuing or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Information Technology & Systems Architecture, Software Engineer, Computer Science, or any related field.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
• Proficiency in a variety of programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript (Preferred)
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Spark, PySpark, SQL (T-SQL Postgres), Enterprise Data Systems like Palantir Foundry (Preferred)
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystem, containerization, and associated tooling (Preferred)
• Knowledge of connecting external APIs (Preferred)
• Knowledge of data & visualization tools, such as Tableau (Preferred)

Qualifications

• Must be pursuing or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Information Technology & Systems Architecture, Software Engineer, Computer Science, or any related field.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
• Able to start full-time in 2027.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $77,000—$114,000 USD
• Highly competitive equity grants.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health and recovery support.