Senior Manufacturing Engineer_Injection Molding(Tooling)

Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster

Fictiv exists
to help product innovators create.

Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

Impact this role
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Manufacturing & Tooling Engineer with 15–20 years of deep, hands-on experience in plastic injection molding and tooling. This role is intended for a technical authority who has personally designed molds, worked in tool shops, led tooling programs, and supported customers through complex global manufacturing programs.

You will report to the Manufacturing Engineering Lead.

Areas of Responsibility:
- Own technical costing and DFM strategy for new tooling and production opportunities, delivering comprehensive DFM, DFA, and cost-optimization recommendations that balance part performance, manufacturability, tooling investment, and long-term unit economics.
- Lead the transition of customer programs from prototype and low-volume production (3D printing, CNC machining, soft tooling) to high-volume injection molding, including part-level redesign, material and process selection, tolerance optimization, and tooling architecture definition to support scalable mass production.
- Drive tooling solution development, including proposal definition, mold-flow analysis oversight, tool design reviews, gating and cooling strategies, and design-for-cost decisions. Act as the technical authority for new tooling, tool transfers, and re-tooling initiatives across global suppliers.
- Serve as the primary technical interface with customers, engaging directly with international engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing teams. Translate customer requirements into manufacturable solutions through clear, high-impact technical communication and cross-functional collaboration with sales, operations, and supplier engineering teams.
- Act as a subject-matter expert for injection molding and related processes, supporting the ongoing development, validation, and refinement of the Fictiv platform tools, workflows, and quoting logic to improve accuracy, scalability, and customer experience.
- Provide technical leadership and quoting support for injection-molding-adjacent processes, including LSR, compression molding, and select metal casting technologies, ensuring process selection and cost models align with functional, regulatory, and volume requirements.
- Ensure rigorous capture and translation of customer requirements pre-sale, validating manufacturability assumptions during quoting and enabling seamless technical handoff post-sale to execution teams, suppliers, and quality functions to ensure on-time, on-spec program launches.
- Travel may be required, dependent upon specific customer programs. This would be estimated at ~10-20% of the year.

Desired Traits:
• 15–20 years total experience in injection molding, plastic tooling, and manufacturing engineering
• Career progression including hands-on technical roles

Technical Core Requirements
• Prior experience as Tooling Designer, Tool Maker, Tooling Engineer, or Tooling Project Manager
• Full tooling lifecycle ownership: DFM, mold design, build, tryout, PPAP, transfer, mass production

Injection Molding Expertise
• Strong understanding of injection molding processes
• Scientific molding experience preferred
• Ability to diagnose and resolve cosmetic and dimensional defects

Transfer Tooling & Global Manufacturing
• Experience transferring tools built in China to overseas plants
• Tool handover, verification, and post-transfer support

Communication & Customer Interface
• Fluent English required
• Direct customer and sales interaction
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Industry Experience
• Automotive, consumer electronics, medical devices

Ideal Candidate Summary
• A senior professional who has designed, built, transferred, and defended tooling in front of customers.

Location: Panyu District Guangzhou

Perks and Benefits

• Housing fund, and social insurance, commercial insurance for employee and your child

• Annual leave, paid sick leave

• Team celebrations

• Annual training opportunities including English learning, technical skills certifications

• Yearly health check-up

• And much, much more!

Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.

About Fictiv

Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.

We’re actively seeking teammates who:

• Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.

• Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.

• Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.

• Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.

• Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.