NPI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +5 more states.

📋 Description

• Act as the main engineering liaison with contract manufacturers and essential manufacturing suppliers.

• Oversee prototype, pilot, and production builds in collaboration with internal engineering teams and external manufacturing partners.

• Create and sustain the New Product Introduction (NPI) plan from prototype development through to production launch and ramp-up.

• Manage engineering builds while controlling build objectives, configurations, materials, documentation, and associated issues.

• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) reviews with Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware engineers, suppliers, and manufacturing collaborators.

• Proactively identify manufacturing risks and lead efforts to resolve them prior to production release.

• Establish manufacturing requirements for assembly processes, fixtures, tooling, programming, calibration, and production testing.

• Formulate a manufacturing-test strategy in conjunction with Electrical and Firmware Engineering teams.

• Ensure Bill of Materials (BOM) readiness, manage approved components, and oversee manufacturing documentation, drawings, work instructions, and engineering modifications.

• Guarantee that engineering modifications are communicated and enacted by manufacturing partners.

• Set production acceptance standards and manufacturing quality controls with contract manufacturers.

• Assist with Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), control plans, process validation, first-article inspections, and production-readiness evaluations.

• Aid in supplier qualification and technical assessments of manufacturing processes.

• Keep track of build issue lists and drive the closure of root causes and corrective actions.

• Monitor yield, defects, rework, cycle time, and manufacturing challenges during the ramp phase.

• Promote serviceability, replaceable-assembly strategies, service disconnects, component identification, maintenance, and field-replacement considerations in product design.

• Collaborate with Verification, Compliance, and Quality teams to ensure production configurations align with validated product configurations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Over 4 years of experience in New Product Introduction (NPI), manufacturing, or product development involving complex electromechanical products.

• Proven track record of guiding physical products from engineering prototypes to production launch.

• Experience in direct collaboration with contract manufacturers and external suppliers.

• Solid understanding of DFM, DFA, BOMs, Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), drawings, assembly procedures, fixtures, tooling, production testing, and configuration management.

• Experience in supporting engineering validation, design validation, pilot, and production builds.

• Familiarity with PFMEA, control plans, root-cause analysis, 8D-style problem solving, and manufacturing quality methodologies.

• Comfortable collaborating across Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Systems, Quality, Operations, and Supply Chain teams.

• Preferred experience with low-to-medium-volume complex electromechanical equipment.

• Experience with regulated products is a plus.

• Preferred knowledge of manufacturing-test strategies and programming/calibration processes.

• Preferred experience in supplier qualification processes.

• Preferred experience in tracking yield, defects, and cycle time during ramp phases.

• Preferred knowledge of quality practices for regulated products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Coverage of 80% of health, dental, and vision insurance.

• 15,000 equity options vesting over four years with a one-year cliff.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Occasional travel opportunities.