[Hiring] Manufacturing / NPI Engineer @Jiga

Role Description

Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster. Our customers are increasingly bringing us production work - not just one-off prototypes. They want us to take a part from first article through low-volume to mass production without losing geometry, blowing tolerances, or surprising them on price.

We're hiring a Manufacturing / NPI Engineer to be the technical and process spine that makes production-class work repeatable. You'll own the engineering side of new-program introduction:

• Design-for-manufacture review
• First-article inspection planning
• Configuration and revision control
• Qualification protocols
• Technical project management that gets a customer from 'prototype that worked' to 'production run we trust.'

What you'll do:

• Own the NPI funnel from RFQ to production
• Be the technical owner on every program that has a path to production
• Run structured DFM reviews on incoming production candidates
• Define the process to move a part from prototype tooling to production tooling
• Partner with the customer's engineering team on design questions, alternative materials, and process trade-offs
• Own FAI, qualification, and quality protocols
• Build and own Jiga's First Article Inspection process
• Define qualification protocols for parts moving from prototype to production
• Author control plans and inspection plans
• Own the engineering side of customer-driven supplier audits
• Enforce configuration and revision control
• Apply rigorous configuration control: which revision of which drawing is in production, who approved it, what changed
• Enforce the ECN / ECO flow with both customers and suppliers
• Verify that what the customer drew, what the supplier received, and what the supplier shipped are all the same part
• Be the engineering link to our suppliers
• Build deep, peer-level engineering relationships with our manufacturing partners
• Drive alignment up-front on every production program
• Be on the ground when it matters: supplier qualification visits, audits, root-cause investigations

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience
• Experience running a real NPI program from DFM through PPAP / FAI / qualification through ramp to volume
• Hands-on experience with configuration control and revision management
• Deep fluency in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols (AS9102 / PPAP / ISIR)
• Meaningful exposure to multiple manufacturing processes - CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive