Key responsibilities include conducting supplier selection, partnering with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development, managing the CAPEX throughout NPI, conducting value-stream mapping to optimise supply network lead time and flexibility, completing the BOM risk assessment, ensuring completion of all component qualifications, reducing complexity through commonality optimisation and component/supplier rationalisation, leading all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximising the total cost of ownership (TCO) across the product lifecycle, and managing ad-hoc cost issues such as tariffs/import export cost, and cost inflation.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical field, 5+ years of experience in sourcing engineering, supplier engagement and development, or design of electronics and/or mechanical devices, domain expertise of value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level, ability to travel 10% - 40% of the time, and ability to relocate if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree or advanced technical degree, deeper experience within design & development of electronics and/or mechanical devices, advanced sourcing activities, including stints as commodity/sourcing managers, supplier development (technology, process, supply chain, etc.), early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realisation, familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment, exposure to working in a fast-pace, start-up environment, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

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