REMOTE Manufacturing Engineering

What we're building

Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster.

The problem: engineers designing physical products waste weeks chasing quotes, vetting suppliers, managing freight, and recovering from bad parts. Jiga fixes this by connecting engineers directly with vetted manufacturers (CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, 3D printing, castings) and running the entire supply chain on their behalf — from RFQ to the loading dock.

We're a small, fully-funded, cashflow-positive team serving enterprise customers across hardware, industrial, robotics, defense, and aerospace.

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. To take the next step and run this work at scale, we need someone who lives in the engineering process, owns it, and makes it run.

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.’ You won’t run a machine — our manufacturing partners do that — but you will be the person customers, suppliers, and our internal team trust when the question is: ‘is this part ready to scale, and what do we need to do to make sure it stays right at 1,000 units, 10,000 units, and beyond?’

Equally important: this role is the engineering connective tissue between Jiga and our manufacturing partners. You’ll build deep relationships with our suppliers — aligning on process, transferring knowledge in both directions, and making sure execution on the shop floor matches what was agreed at the engineering table. The goal is to be excellent at process — designing it, enforcing it, and verifying that it actually works on real parts.

This is a US-based, customer-facing engineering role. Some travel is part of the job — to customer sites for design reviews and program kickoffs, and to supplier sites for alignment and execution support — but it isn’t the majority of the work.

We're a small remote team made up of the best of the best. Our team members are distributed around the globe — most of our product and engineering talent sits in Europe and Israel, our operators sit across the US, EU, and Asia. You'll have real ownership over how production engineering runs at Jiga, no process theater, no busy-work meetings.

If you’re addicted to building the process that fits the product and verifying it actually works, it is.

We play games online every week. We genuinely like hanging out together — which turns out to be way better than forced team-building.

What we value in engineering

For every part in flight, you should be able to answer: what’s the current revision, what process is making it, who’s qualified to make it, what inspection it requires, and where it is in the pipeline. Configuration control, FAI, control plans, revision discipline — these exist for a reason and we want them. The right level of rigor depends on the part, the customer, and the volume. A defense-aerospace machined housing needs more process than a low-volume bracket; Walk the factory floor. You don’t need to live in our suppliers’ shops, but you need to know what their machines, processes, and engineers can actually do. The best NPI engineers we’ve met have spent real time on a real shop floor.

The job is making sure the process is actually being followed on the shop floor and producing the part you signed off on. Our customers are engineers at the best hardware companies in the world. They want a peer, not a project manager reading from a script. The same applies with our supplier engineers — they bring their best work to people who speak their language.

Own the NPI funnel from RFQ to production

Be the technical owner on every program that has a path to production — from initial RFQ review through prototype, qualification builds, and ramp to volume.

Run structured DFM reviews on incoming production candidates. Surface manufacturability issues before they become quoting issues, supplier issues, or customer issues.

Define the process to move a part from prototype tooling to production tooling — including when soft tooling stays good enough, when hard tooling is justified, and how to amortize tooling costs across realistic volume forecasts.

Partner with the customer’s engineering team on design questions, alternative materials, and process trade-offs. Translate between their CAD and our suppliers’ capabilities.

Own FAI, qualification, and quality protocols

Build and own Jiga’s First Article Inspection process — what triggers an FAI, what it includes (dimensional report, CMM, material cert, finish cert, RoHS/REACH where applicable, product photos), how it’s reviewed, and how it’s signed off.

Define qualification protocols for parts moving from prototype to production: sample sizes, inspection cadence, what ‘good’ looks like, and when a supplier earns a reduced-inspection schedule on a repeat order.

Author control plans and inspection plans where the customer or the part complexity demands it. Own the engineering side of customer-driven supplier audits — prepare for them, attend them where useful, and close out findings.

Enforce configuration and revision control

Know what good configuration control looks like — and apply it to Jiga: which revision of which drawing is in production, who approved it, what changed between revisions, and how the answer to each of those questions is one query away, not three Slack threads away.

Enforce the ECN / ECO flow with both customers and suppliers: how revisions are received, how they’re communicated downstream, how stale revisions are prevented from going into production.

Verify, on every program, that what the customer drew, what the supplier received, and what the supplier shipped are all the same part. Be the technical project manager

Run programs end to end: a customer engagement that starts with one RFQ and ends with a multi-year supply relationship is a program, and someone needs to own it technically. Manage timelines, gate reviews, and stakeholder updates across the customer’s engineering team, our supplier, and Jiga’s sales and ops teams.

Be the technical escalation point when something goes wrong on a production part. Be the engineering link to our suppliers

Build deep, peer-level engineering relationships with our manufacturing partners — the kind where their lead engineer calls you when they see something off in a drawing, not when the part has already shipped wrong.

Drive alignment up-front on every production program: process selection, tolerance interpretation, inspection plan, qualification approach, escape-defect handling. Make sure both sides are operating from the same playbook before the first chip is cut.

Run knowledge transfer in both directions — customer requirements and design intent down to the supplier, supplier process know-how and feasibility insight back up to the customer and to Jiga.

Push our platform forward as the system of record for revisions, FAI status, control plans, and qualification data — not Slack, not email, not somebody’s Notion page.

Surface recurring engineering problems with data, not anecdotes. Then build the playbooks, templates, and platform features that prevent them next time.

See yourself as a process engineer first and a technical specialist second. You don’t need to be the deepest CNC programmer or moldmaker in the room — you need to be the person who designs the process, enforces it, and verifies it actually produced the right part.

Have 6+ years of hands-on manufacturing engineering, NPI, or production engineering experience at a contract manufacturer, OEM, or a hardware company that took products from prototype to production.

Have hands-on, demonstrated experience with configuration control and revision management on parts that real customers buy. Are deeply fluent in FAI, control plans, inspection plans, and quality protocols (AS9102 / PPAP / ISIR / equivalent). Read mechanical drawings and CAD (PDF, STEP, SolidWorks) the way other people read English. Have meaningful exposure to multiple manufacturing processes — CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, castings, additive — and know enough about each to tell when a quote is realistic and when it isn’t.

Can run a technical project: timelines, gate reviews, RAID logs, stakeholder management, executive updates. PMP is not required and probably not relevant.

Communicate in short, direct, action-oriented messages — and can write a clean engineering memo or root-cause report when one is needed.

Are excited about a fast-moving startup and comfortable being the engineering adult in the room when a production part is in trouble and stakeholders are panicking.

Are based in the US and open to occasional travel — to customer and supplier sites, domestically and internationally as needed. ITAR-eligible / US person status is a plus given the defense and aerospace adjacencies in our customer base.

Are fluent in English; Hebrew, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or German are a bonus.

Background in defense, aerospace, medical device, or another regulated manufacturing environment. Degree in mechanical, manufacturing, or industrial engineering.

Time spent inside a contract manufacturer or job shop — you’ve been on the other side of an RFQ before.

Experience building the engineering function inside a growing company — not just running one that already exists.

Six Sigma, Lean, or equivalent process-improvement training, used (not just credentialed).

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