[Hiring] NPI Engineer @Ammortal Inc

Role Description

The Ammortal Chamber is a complex electromechanical product, and we are scaling production significantly. Getting from engineering development to repeatable, high-quality production takes a dedicated owner who keeps design, manufacturing, and quality moving in step.

The NPI Engineer owns that transition. This role is the primary technical interface between Product Engineering and our contract manufacturing partners, driving manufacturing readiness from early design through prototype, validation, pilot, and production builds. Every Chamber that ships well-built and on time is a person or a community that gets to experience what we've made.

Responsibilities

• Contract Manufacturer Interface: Serve as the primary engineering interface with contract manufacturers and key manufacturing suppliers. Coordinate prototype, pilot, and production builds with internal engineering teams and external manufacturing partners.
• NPI Planning and Build Control: Develop and maintain the NPI plan from prototype builds through production launch and ramp. Coordinate engineering builds and ensure build objectives, configurations, materials, documentation, and issues are controlled.
• DFM/DFA Leadership: Lead DFM/DFA reviews with Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Identify manufacturing risks early and drive resolution before production release.
• Manufacturing Requirements and Test Strategy: Develop manufacturing requirements for assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, programming, calibration, and production testing. Develop manufacturing-test strategy in collaboration with Electrical and Firmware Engineering.
• Documentation and Configuration Control: Coordinate BOM readiness, approved components, manufacturing documentation, drawings, work instructions, and engineering changes with appropriate owners. Ensure engineering changes are properly communicated and implemented by manufacturing partners.
• Quality Systems and Readiness: Establish production acceptance criteria and manufacturing quality controls with the contract manufacturer. Support PFMEA, control plans, process validation, first-article activities, and production-readiness reviews. Support supplier qualification and technical evaluation of manufacturing processes.
• Issue Resolution and Ramp Metrics: Maintain build issue lists and drive root-cause and corrective-action closure. Track yield, defects, rework, cycle time, and manufacturing issues during ramp.
• Serviceability and Configuration Consistency: Drive serviceability, replaceable-assembly strategy, service disconnects, component identification, maintenance, and field-replacement considerations into product design. Coordinate with Verification, Compliance, and Quality functions to ensure production configurations remain consistent with validated product configurations.

Skills to Excel

• Ownership Across the Handoff: You keep engineering intent intact from design through production, and you drive problems to closure rather than just tracking them.
• Manufacturing Fluency: You understand DFM/DFA, assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, production testing, and configuration control well enough to guide design decisions.
• Structured Problem Solving: You use root-cause analysis, 8D-style problem solving, PFMEA, and control plans to resolve issues systematically.
• Partner Communication: You build trusted relationships with contract manufacturers and suppliers while holding a clear line on quality.
• Cross-Functional Range: You move comfortably across Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Systems, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain.

Technical Knowledge

Required:

• DFM/DFA
• BOM management, ECOs, and configuration control
• Engineering drawings and manufacturing documentation
• Assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, and production testing
• PFMEA, control plans, and process validation
• Root-cause analysis and 8D-style problem solving
• First-article inspection and production-readiness reviews

Preferred:

• Manufacturing-test strategy and programming/calibration processes
• Supplier qualification
• Yield, defect, and cycle-time tracking during ramp
• Regulated-product quality practices

Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 4+ years of NPI, manufacturing, or product-development experience with complex electromechanical products
• Demonstrated experience taking physical products from engineering prototypes through production launch
• Experience working directly with contract manufacturers and external suppliers
• Strong understanding of DFM/DFA, BOMs, ECOs, drawings, assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, production testing, and configuration control
• Experience supporting engineering validation, design validation, pilot, and production builds
• Working knowledge of PFMEA, control plans, root-cause analysis, 8D-style problem solving, and manufacturing quality methods
• Comfortable working across Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Systems, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain

Qualifications (Nice to haves)

• Experience with low-to-medium-volume complex electromechanical equipment (particularly relevant)
• Regulated-product experience

Pay, Location, Hours

• Pay Range: $125,000-$147,970
• Benefits: 80% of health, dental, and vision insurance covered
• Equity: 15,000 options vesting over 4 years with a 1 year cliff
• Location: Remote, some travel