About the role
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, and the 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 where the customer or the part complexity demands it
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: process selection, tolerance interpretation, inspection plan
Be on the ground when it matters: supplier qualification visits, audits, root-cause investigations
You're a fit if you
Have 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience
Have run a real NPI program from DFM through PPAP / FAI / qualification through ramp to volume
Have hands-on experience with configuration control and revision management
Are deeply fluent in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols (AS9102 / PPAP / ISIR)
Have meaningful exposure to multiple manufacturing processes - CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive
Can run a technical project: timelines, gate reviews, RAID logs, stakeholder management
Visa: US citizen/visa only.