Manufacturing, NPI Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Jiga

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $12M Series A on 2025-11

Manufacturing • B2B

Jiga is a company that acts as an outsourced/custom manufacturing partner for aerospace, defense, and robotics teams. Jiga sources and manages qualified suppliers (AS9100, ISO 9001, ITAR-registered) across the U. S. and allied countries to deliver custom parts—CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, additive, castings, forgings, and finishing—from prototype through production. They provide software and a dedicated team (senior account manager, experts on demand) to keep order status, delivery dates, and supplier communication visible and to own issue resolution, positioning themselves as the customer's manufacturing arm and single supplier of record.

📋 Description

• Own the NPI funnel from RFQ through prototype, qualification builds, and production ramp • Run structured design-for-manufacture reviews and identify manufacturability issues • Define transitions from prototype tooling to production tooling and tooling-cost amortization approaches • Partner with customer engineering teams on design questions, materials, and process trade-offs • Build and manage Jiga’s First Article Inspection process • Define qualification protocols, sample sizes, inspection cadence, and reduced-inspection criteria • Author control plans and inspection plans and verify supplier execution • Lead engineering activities for customer-driven supplier audits and close findings • Enforce configuration control, revision management, and ECN/ECO processes • Verify consistency between customer drawings, supplier files, and shipped parts • Run technical programs end to end, including timelines, gate reviews, and stakeholder updates • Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for production issues • Build engineering relationships with manufacturing partners • Align suppliers and customers on process selection, tolerances, inspection, qualification, and defect handling • Transfer knowledge between customers, suppliers, and Jiga • Attend supplier qualification visits, audits, root-cause investigations, and ramp-to-volume checkpoints • Improve Jiga’s platform as the system of record for revisions, FAI status, control plans, and qualification data • Develop playbooks, templates, and platform improvements to prevent recurring engineering problems

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience at a contract manufacturer, OEM, or hardware company taking products from prototype to production • Experience running a real NPI program from DFM through PPAP / FAI / qualification to ramp-to-volume • Hands-on experience with configuration control and revision management • Fluency in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols such as AS9102, PPAP, or ISIR • Ability to read mechanical drawings and CAD formats including PDF, STEP, and SolidWorks • Proficiency with GD&T • Exposure to CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, and additive manufacturing • Technical project management skills including timelines, gate reviews, RAID logs, stakeholder management, and executive updates • Based in the US and open to occasional domestic and international travel • Fluent in English • Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering is nice-to-have, not required • ITAR-eligible / US person status is a plus • Defense, aerospace, medical device, or regulated manufacturing experience is nice-to-have • Familiarity with AS9100, ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and ITAR/export-control basics is nice-to-have • Six Sigma, Lean, or equivalent process-improvement training is nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote team • Async-first work environment • High-trust, flexible working culture with no hour tracking • Weekly online games • Annual company offsite • Occasional travel to customer and supplier sites • Cashflow-positive, fully funded company environment

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