2027 Early Career Supply Chain Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

The 2027 Early Career Supply Chain Engineer will support Anduril’s Supply Chain group in strategic planning, long-term supplier selection, and negotiations. The role works with procurement, engineering, finance, and legal teams, as well as suppliers and other third parties. It calls for interest in industry dynamics, business negotiation and pricing, manufacturing processes, and risk mitigation.

The engineer will collaborate on business solutions across demand and material planning, procurement, purchasing, logistics, warehouse and supplier quality, and operational scale and supply chain health. Work includes improving planning, sourcing, purchasing, warehouse, and quality systems; creating analytics and dashboards; identifying material gaps and supplier risks; documenting processes and compliance requirements; and developing supplier onboarding, scorecards, and health-check mechanisms.

The role also serves as a link between business and IT teams, helping clarify requirements, plan sprints, test and train end users, triage data-flow issues, and contribute to a global Supply Chain digital ecosystem pipeline and capability roadmap. Candidates must be pursuing or have recently completed a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree, be a U.S. Person, and be able to start full time in 2027.

Requirements

• Must be pursuing or have recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Information Technology and Systems Architecture, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Must be a U.S. Person because the role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• Must be able to start full time in 2027.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Spark, PySpark, SQL (T-SQL or Postgres), or enterprise data systems such as Palantir Foundry.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystems, containerization, and associated tooling.
• Knowledge of connecting external APIs.
• Knowledge of data and visualization tools such as Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic planning, long-term supplier selection, and negotiations.
• Collaborate on business solutions across demand and material planning, procurement, purchasing, logistics, warehouse and supplier quality, and supply chain health.
• Support improvements to MRP system inputs, outputs, engine logic, and integration with ERP modules; develop analytics and dashboards.
• Identify material gaps and supplier risks, assist with BOM errors and master data requirements, and support supply chain milestone and planning procedures.
• Optimize RFQ systems and upstream data flows; develop tools for multi-tier quoting, sourcing, supplier collaboration, and sourcing and cost trajectory analysis.
• Support purchasing procedures and training, troubleshoot part and BOM issues, develop part availability dashboards and analytics, and improve purchase request workflows and traceability.
• Optimize WMS and QMS systems and integrated processes to improve inventory accuracy and build readiness; support compliance and sparing audits and inventory analytics.
• Document internal and supplier-facing supply chain processes and develop document change-control and rollout procedures.
• Help develop a supplier scorecard, integrate it into the Supplier Portal landscape, and create supplier risk profiles and health-check mechanisms.
• Support development of compliance requirements related to federal and industry-specific regulations and guidelines.
• Develop and manage Supply Chain onboarding materials and checklists.
• Liaise between business and IT teams to gather and clarify requirements; support sprint planning, end-user testing, and training.
• Perform application, system, and process testing and report results.
• Support development of a global Supply Chain digital ecosystem pipeline and capability roadmap.
• Collaborate with the Data team to triage and resolve data-flow issues that affect analytics.
• Gather end-user feedback and requirements to address ad hoc problems and inform the overall roadmap.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive and competitive package available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level