Manufacturing Engineer - GCC - Injection Molding (US Shift)
Fictiv
About the role
About MISUMI Americas
MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.
Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.
Opportunity To Grow Your Career
At Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.
**This position will be based on-site in our Bangalore office, working overnight IST hours to support the US Pacific Standard Time zone.**
Impact In This Role
As the Injection Moulding Subject Matter Expert for global manufacturing operations, you will serve as the vital technical bridge between our customers and our supplier network, meticulously translating complex design intent into high-quality, manufacturable solutions. Your focus will be on strengthening and scaling capabilities across our global vendor base, driving technical excellence to ensure every production program is both cost-effective and operationally efficient. By providing strategic guidance and optimizing processes, you will enable accelerated product launches and superior outcomes across diverse industries. Ultimately, you will ensure that all technical activities are seamlessly aligned with our organization’s vision to establish the world's leading hardware manufacturing platform.
What You’ll Be Doing
Own and drive technical costing strategies and lead Design for Manufacturability/Assembly (DFM/DFA) initiatives, delivering optimized solutions that balance performance, manufacturability, tooling investment, and long-term unit economics.
Lead program industrialization and scale-up by transitioning products from prototype and low-volume builds to high-volume injection moulding production, including part redesign, material selection, tolerance optimization, and tooling architecture.
Collaborate across multiple manufacturing domains, supporting CNC machining, additive manufacturing (3DP), and sheet metal projects to deliver flexible, end-to-end customer solutions.
Drive end-to-end tooling development and engineering oversight, including proposal creation, mold flow analysis, tool design reviews, gating and cooling strategies, and design-for-cost decisions; act as the technical authority for new too