# Manufacturing / NPI Engineer at Jiga

- Company: Jiga
- What the company does: Source custom parts directly from qualified suppliers. Human-reviewed quotes, direct supplier communication, built for reliable, repeatable production. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://jiga.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jiga/793c1691-350f-46c9-a6d8-8de60a3e0ce0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/jiga-manufacturing-npi-engineer/

## About the role

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’ve been doing this, and we’ve been doing it well enough to win serious programs. 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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. Make sure suppliers actually execute against them
- Own the engineering side of customer-driven supplier audits — prepare for them, attend them where useful, and close out findings

Tags: Supply Chain Operations