Manufacturing Engineering

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.'

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

Have 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience

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