Supply Chain Intern at Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA

Summary: Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities through advanced technology. The Supply Chain Intern will support various aspects of supply chain management, including demand planning, procurement, and logistics, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance supply chain performance. Responsibilities: - Proficiency in a variety of programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, etc - Designing and implementing systems to meet business needs - Analyzing and understanding business requirements and processes - Testing and troubleshooting new tools to be created that meets user requirements - Documenting system functionality and maintaining user guides - Liaising between business stakeholders and IT personnel - Ensuring compliance with industry standards and security regulations - Providing training and support to system users - Perform financial research on suppliers, spend analysis and ad-hoc financial analysis for strategic deals - Effectively work with identify industry/category optimal terms for sourcing on upcoming projects. Understand the trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality to close agreements that meet program criteria and secure long-term supply continuity - Improve supply chain performance through cost and capacity scenario analysis, and supplier benchmarking - Collaborate with cross-functional teams - Present ideas, project details, and status to business leadership - Develop standards, processes, and documentation as necessary to ensure continued success and transferability after project completion - Demand & Material Planning – Support enhancement and optimization of our MRP system inputs/outputs/engine-logic and integration into all ERP modules, develop analytics/dashboards. Identifying 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, 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 better automate Purchasing workflows and traceability, etc - 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 with Inventory analytics for period-end/ad-hoc requests - Operational Scale & Supply Chain Health – Document Supply Chain processes (both for internal SMEs and external Supplier collaborators) and develop Doc change control and rollout procedures, support in developing a comprehensive Supplier Scorecard and integrate it into the Supplier Portal system landscape, develop a risk assessment supplier profile and health-check mechanism to enable 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 Data team with data flow triage and issue-resolution intended to enable streamlined and accurate analytics - Develop a strong familiarity with the Supply Chain end-user base and their data and system usage and feedback to gather enhancement requirements for ad-hoc problem solving and building into the overall roadmap Required Qualifications: - Proficiency in a variety of programming languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, etc - Designing and implementing systems to meet business needs - Analyzing and understanding business requirements and processes - Testing and troubleshooting new tools to be created that meets user requirements - Documenting system functionality and maintaining user guides - Liaising between business stakeholders and IT personnel - Ensuring compliance with industry standards and security regulations - Providing training and support to system users - Perform financial research on suppliers, spend analysis and ad-hoc financial analysis for strategic deals - Effectively work with identify industry/category optimal terms for sourcing on upcoming projects - Understand the trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality to close agreements that meet program criteria and secure long-term supply continuity - Improve supply chain performance through cost and capacity scenario analysis, and supplier benchmarking - Collaborate with cross-functional teams - Present ideas, project details, and status to business leadership - Develop standards, processes, and documentation as necessary to ensure continued success and transferability after project completion - In pursuit of a Bachelors Degree (or in pursuit of a Master's Degree) in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Information Technology & Systems Architecture, Software Engineering/CS, or related field - Must be a rising senior at the time of their internship and returning to school at the end of their internship to continue their academic studies for at least one quarter/semester - Background/Education: Supply Chain, Business, MIS or Computer Science - U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data Preferred Qualifications: - C++, Python, JavaScript (React & Angular), Microsoft Excel, Spark, PySpark, SQL (T-SQL Postgres), Enterprise Data Systems like Palantir Foundry a plus - Preferred but not limited to AWS, Azure, or GCP security ecosystem, containerization, and associated tooling - Connecting external APIs, and knowledge of data & visualization tools, such as Tableau Required Skills: Go, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, React, Angular, Microsoft Excel, Spark, PySpark, SQL, T-SQL, Postgres, Palantir Foundry, AWS, Azure, GCP, Containerization, API Integration, Tableau, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Bill of Materials (BOM) Management, Request for Quote (RFQ) Systems, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Quality Management Systems (QMS), Supply Chain Analytics, Supplier Risk Assessment, Financial Analysis, Supplier Benchmarking, Supply Chain Process Documentation, Supplier Scorecard Development, Compliance Requirements Management, Business Negotiation Benefits: Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package., Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.