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Anduril Industries · 1 day ago

Supply Chain Intern

Costa Mesa, CA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

Start in 2026 Summer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Supply Chain Intern will support the Supply Chain group in strategic planning, supplier selection, and negotiations, while collaborating with various teams to enhance supply chain performance and develop business solutions.

AerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)GovernmentMilitaryNational Security

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Qualification

Programming languagesSupply Chain ManagementData analysisFinancial analysisSupplier negotiationProject managementTraining supportCollaborationDocumentationProblem solving

Required

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

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

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.

We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.

We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.

Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.

Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.

Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.

Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.

Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.

Annual reimbursement for professional development

Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.

Available depending on role eligibility.

Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.

Pension plan with employer match.

Superannuation plan.