Senior Sourcing Engineer
Sydney · Alexandria, AUS (SYD-11) · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sydney · Alexandria, AUS (SYD-11)
About the role
- The Senior Sourcing Engineer drives strategic supply network development and cost management of product hardware across lifecycles.
- This role collaborates with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders including engineering, quality, and manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Conduct supplier selection for a specific product, leveraging approved supplier list.
- Partner with strategic suppliers to accelerate product development via activities such as concept scoping, feature trade-off, total cost of ownership modeling, and joint design development.
- Development and execution of sourcing strategy via full market knowledge, supplier rationalisation, commodity pricing plan and effective principles to drive efficiency and cost.
- Drive the development and consolidation of a manufacturing BOM, working with Quality & Manufacturing, to ramp production internally and with our 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 the BOM risk assessment and develop plan per part analysis.
- Lead all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximizing the total cost of ownership across the product lifecycle.
- Manage ad-hoc cost issues e.g., tariffs / import export cost, and cost inflation.
Requirements
- Background within design & development of mechanical and/or electronics devices, advanced sourcing activities, supplier development, and early supplier engagement.
- Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level.
- Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.
- Must be eligible to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Skills
- Total Cost Of Ownership
- BOM
- NPI
- CAPEX
- Value-stream Mapping
- Cost Engineering
- Commodity Pricing
