Paperless Parts is the SaaS-based intelligence layer for modern manufacturing, enabling our customers to innovate faster in the physical world. From rockets to medical devices, we power the parts that move the world forward.

Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid) Reports To: Chief Technology Officer Employment Type: Full-Time Travel: 5–10%

This position requires activities that are subject to US Export Control Laws and require US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.

The Opportunity

Four years ago Paperless Parts was a startup. Today it's a scale-up with an engineering team that ships reliably, a platform that's changing how manufacturers quote and run their business, and a customer base that keeps growing. The next chapter is new product lines and faster growth, and we need a VP of Engineering to lead that shift. You'll report to the CTO and run a 25+ person organization through two Directors of Engineering, working as a peer to the VP of Product and Chief Scientist. The job is two jobs at once: keep the core platform stable and improving for customers who depend on it daily, while standing up new products in a market where AI is changing what's possible to build and how fast you can build it. Whoever takes this on has to be good at both, and has to make the team better at both.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

The next product line is in market, with real customers live on it and generating revenue, on a platform built to scale; proof Paperless Parts can build a second product the market wants, not just defend the first one.
The team has moved from using AI inside the SDLC to running an AI-native SDLC, one built on a first-class engineering culture, with people still at the center of how software gets made.
Successful delivery means customer value landed, not tickets closed; Engineering and Product move as one team toward customer-facing measure of success.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Operations: Own engineering delivery, quality, and predictability, establishing an operational rhythm the broader company depends on.
Technical Direction: Own the architecture and platform decisions that set our foundation for the next stage. New products mean new architecture, and the choices made now set the tone for how we build for years to come.
Product Partnership: Partner with the VP of Product on a roadmap that delivers real value to customers, sharing ownership of sequencing, trade-offs, and the commitments we make. Engineering brings feasibility, cost, and options to the table early, not after the plan is set.
Manufacturing Intelligence: Partner with the Chief Scientist on the development and execution of our manufacturing intelligence strategy, bringing new AI-driven capability to market.
AI Leverage: We have adopted AI across the engineering organization. Lead the next step: maximize its leverage to shape how we work for the future, while holding the line on quality.
Platform Efficiency: Keep the core platform cheaper to run, faster to change, and more reliable as customer volume grows.
Leadership and Team Growth: Coach Directors and Engineering Managers, establish clear career paths that develop and retain strong engineers, and direct the hiring plan and selection standard so the team grows without compromising technical or cultural quality.
Executive Leadership: Represent engineering status, capacity, risks, and strategic tradeoffs clearly to the executive leadership team.

Qualifications & Experience

Core Requirements

Scale Experience: Demonstrated track record of leading multi-team B2B SaaS engineering organizations through growth phases while continuously improving delivery quality and predictability.
Management Depth: Proven success managing through Directors and Engineering Managers, with evidence of developing frontline leaders.
Modern SaaS Architecture: Deep technical background in cloud-native platforms, with a track record of architectural decisions that scale under increasing customer load.
AI in Practice: Experience raising an engineering team's effectiveness with AI tooling and AI-enabled product capability, with a clear point of view on where it works and where it does not.
Product Alignment: Strong experience partnering with Product leadership to align technical roadmap priorities with commercial objectives.
Location: US-based (Boston, MA hybrid).

Preferred Qualifications

New Product Execution: Hands-on experience taking new product lines from early customer traction to scaled commercial production within an established organization.
Domain & Compliance Awareness: Experience operating within security-conscious software environments (FedRAMP, etc.) or industrial/manufacturing SaaS sectors.

Salary range:

$215,000 - $310,000 base salary. This role is also eligible for a competitive variable bonus and equity opportunity

The job posting range is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

Paperless Parts Life

Culture: At Paperless Parts, we value intentionality, persistence and relationships. We live and breathe these values every day. As a fast-growing company, we’re continually improving what we’ve built while still building from the ground up.

Boston Office: Our office is full of energy; people regularly collaborate to solve complex problems. We recognize that people work well in different environments and have intentionally designed our office to provide collaborative spaces and quiet focus areas. Our height-adjustable desks are set up with additional monitors, and employees are provided with the latest Apple technology to support productivity.

Our headquarters is located in downtown Boston, MA and easily accessible to most transit routes (Red/Blue/Orange/Green Line/South Station/North Station).

Encinitas Office: Our California office is our newest office which seats our West Coast sales team. The office has an open floor plan with several conference rooms to encourage collaboration with your colleagues in California and TV's to connect with those sitting in Boston or remotely. The office is walking distance from Downtown Encinitas, the Coaster train stop, and tons of activities on the 101.

Benefits: We value you and your family. With this in mind, full-time employees are provided:

100% coverage of health, dental, and vision for you and your dependent
Competitive compensation philosophy
Unlimited PTO
13+ paid holidays
Company-sponsored wellness stipend
Pre-tax Commuter and FSA/Dependent Care FSA
401(k) plan
Employee recognition program

Responsible for adherence to all security and privacy requirements, rules and regulations and implement as required.

Paperless Parts is committed to cultivating an equitable, inclusive, and supportive environment for all employees. We believe this environment creates a safe space for employees to share their experiences, brainstorm ideas, and grow their careers. Paperless Parts is an Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

About the company

Paperless Parts provides a cloud-based quoting platform for manufacturers to automate and streamline the quote process. The system is accessed online and includes advanced analytics, collaboration tools, and a built-in part viewer to help teams forecast costs, share data, and review part models during pricing. It differentiates itself by focusing specifically on manufacturing quotes with an integrated viewer and analytics that scale from small shops to large plants. The goal is to make quoting more accessible and efficient so manufacturers win more quotes and run operations more effectively.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$37.1M

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

TIGHITCO adopted Paperless Parts in July 2026 for faster, more secure aerospace quoting.
IMTS 2026 gives Paperless Parts direct exposure to thousands of manufacturing buyers this week.
June 2026 enterprise multisite availability expands upsell paths across multi-facility manufacturers.

What critics are saying

Autodesk, Epicor, and Hexagon can bundle adjacent quoting workflows into their platforms.
2023 layoffs showed operating leverage pressure; another growth miss triggers harder cuts by 2027.
AI extraction becomes table stakes; if Wingman commoditizes, Paperless Parts loses pricing power.

What makes Paperless Parts unique

Paperless Parts turns complex prints into quotes with Wingman 2.0, launched May 2026.
Its June 2026 multisite release coordinates quoting across facilities without replacing existing ERP systems.
FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent and CMMC Level 2 support targets aerospace and defense manufacturers.

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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Vacation
Wellness Program
Gym Membership
Commuter Benefits
Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
401(k) Retirement Plan
Employee Recognition Program

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6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-1%

Tech Funding News

Sep 9th, 2026

CloudNC raises $20M from Nimble Ventures and Lockheed Martin's fund as its AI reaches 1,000+ machine shops.

CloudNC raises $20M from Nimble Ventures and Lockheed Martin's fund as its AI reaches 1,000+ machine shops. September 9, 2026 * CloudNC raised $20 million, led by Nimble Ventures, with Lockheed Martin's fund also investing. * Its AI software, CAM Assist, now runs in more than 1,000 machine shops worldwide. * CloudNC is pursuing FedRAMP certification to sell directly to US defence agencies. Theo Saville spent his university years getting comfortable with 3D printers before he ever touched a CNC machine. The jump was jarring: a 3D printer took a file and made a part; a CNC machine took a file, an engineer's patience, and days of manual programming before it made anything at all. His future co-founder, Chris Emery, had assumed the machines were already automatic. 10 years after the two set out to fix that gap, CloudNC has raised $20 million, led by US investor Nimble Ventures, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures also participating. From a lab frustration to 1,000 machine shops. CloudNC, founded in London in 2015 by Saville and Emery, builds software that automates CNC programming, historically one of manufacturing's slowest, most manual steps. Emery brought the coding side: he had been writing software since age 12, sold his own shareware at 15, and later worked as an engineer at Google before co-founding CloudNC. Its flagship product, CAM Assist, plugs directly into CAM packages such as Fusion, Mastercam, and Siemens NX and generates milling strategies and toolpaths in seconds rather than hours. It now runs in more than 1,000 machine shops globally, including hundreds in the US, and counts Lockheed Martin and Major Tool and Machine among its customers. Targeting the boring bottleneck: quoting. The new money will fund CloudNC's expansion into new markets and the launch of Quote Agent, an AI tool for quoting and estimating machining jobs, due later in 2026. Quoting is unglamorous but expensive to get wrong: move too slowly, and a shop loses the job. "Quoting is one of the biggest hidden bottlenecks in precision machining: move too slowly, and shops can lose the opportunity, or price inaccurately and they can lose margin once the job reaches production," Saville said. That puts CloudNC up against Paperless Parts, the Boston quoting platform that has raised $45.5 million and added its own AI layer, and against fellow CAM-automation startups Limitless Labs, the Tel Aviv startup that Tech Funding News covered raising $20 million in June to program parts for Blue Origin and Cadillac's F1 team - and Manukai, the Zurich, ETH spinout that raised $3 million. CloudNC's edge is scale: more than 1,000 live shop deployments is a bigger footprint than either rival claims. Lockheed Martin, investor and customer. The more interesting wrinkle is Lockheed Martin's dual role. It is both a named customer and, through LM Ventures, a repeat investor - it also joined CloudNC's $45 million Series B in 2022, which we covered at the time. CloudNC is now working with Knox Systems toward FedRAMP certification for CAM Assist, the US government's cloud-security standard, a step that would open the door to defence and other sensitive manufacturing workloads. Nimble Ventures founder John Burbank, who built the $4 billion hedge fund Passport Capital before moving into venture investing, said: "CloudNC's automation of CNC will enable massive increases in onshoring of manufacturing and global production of mission-critical components." AI is moving deeper into manufacturing. CloudNC's Series A raised £9 million from Atomico in 2018. Its 2022 Series B added $45 million from Autodesk, Lockheed Martin, and British Patient Capital. Saville has previously put the company's total funding at more than $75 million; this round takes that past $95 million. The CNC programming software market alone is estimated at $823 million and is forecast to reach $1.16 billion by 2034, a fraction of the broader industrial-AI wave that has also funded Berlin's Almetra, a €16.3 million for factory-floor vision, and London's Isembard, which raised £37.5 million to run AI factories directly. Whether CAM Assist and Quote Agent end up as the default layer between CAD file and finished part, or just one of several competing copilots vying for the same shop floor, depends on how many machinists actually trust software to make that first call.

Gardner Business Media, Inc.

Sep 3rd, 2026

Paperless Parts software solution enhances centralized visibility.

Paperless Parts software solution enhances centralized visibility. IMTS 2026: Paperless Parts' multisite solution connects sister companies under one platform, reducing per-quote time and increasing workflow visiblity. Paperless Parts' software solution is designed to provide centralized visibility and coordination across a portfolio of businesses. According to the company, the solution connects organizations without forcing sister companies to abandon the systems that made them successful in the first place. It does so with three features: * A multisite dashboard, a centralized command center gives leadership aggregated visibility across all sites * Internal quoting, which allows shops to transfer parts and quotes between sites within the organization * Multisite search, which allows users to search across all businesses within an enterprise, eliminating costly inefficiencies or undercutting sister sites "With the new multisite features from Paperless Parts, what maybe in the past could take as many as 10 minutes per instance, now takes 15 or 30 seconds to do," says Jamie Goettler, chief revenue officer at BTX Precision, a beta user of the feature set. "If I can quote more opportunities in a day, that's more at-bats, which means more hits, which means more revenue." Connect at. Paperless Parts will be exhibiting new technology at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, IL this September. * When Machinists Own the Tools: How to Standardize Setups Without a Toolroom How one shop standardized repeatable setups without a toolroom by using operation-level tool lists, location discipline and a pragmatic ERP workflow. * Machine Monitoring Integrates With ERP to Reduce Errors By investing in machine monitoring that links machine data with the shop's ERP system, this machine shop broke down communication barriers and dramatically reduced errors. * Setting Up a Small Shop for Big Growth Metal Trade Solutions is laying a foundation to grow by determining standard tools and workholding, and fully implementing technology.

Gardner Business Media Inc.

Aug 21st, 2026

Paperless Parts software solution enhances centralized visibility.

Paperless Parts software solution enhances centralized visibility. IMTS 2026: Paperless Parts' multisite solution connects sister companies under one platform, reducing per-quote time and increasing workflow visiblity. Paperless Parts' software solution is designed to provide centralized visibility and coordination across a portfolio of businesses. According to the company, the solution connects organizations without forcing sister companies to abandon the systems that made them successful in the first place. It does so with three features: * A multisite dashboard, a centralized command center gives leadership aggregated visibility across all sites * Internal quoting, which allows shops to transfer parts and quotes between sites within the organization * Multisite search, which allows users to search across all businesses within an enterprise, eliminating costly inefficiencies or undercutting sister sites "With the new multisite features from Paperless Parts, what maybe in the past could take as many as 10 minutes per instance, now takes 15 or 30 seconds to do," says Jamie Goettler, chief revenue officer at BTX Precision, a beta user of the feature set. "If I can quote more opportunities in a day, that's more at-bats, which means more hits, which means more revenue." Connect at. Paperless Parts will be exhibiting new technology at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, IL this September. * Precision Machining Technology Review: January 2026 Production Machining's January 2026 technology showcase includes some of the latest technology from Kyocera SGS Precision Tools, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Star SU, Erowa Technology Inc., SW North America and Sandvik Coromant. * Precision Machining Technology Review: December 2025 Production Machining's December 2025 technology showcase includes some of the latest technology from Grob Systems Inc., Seco Tools, Horn USA Inc., Tungaloy-NTK America Inc. and Datanomix. * Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Manufacturing Identifying and preventing these manufacturing sins will reduce or eliminate unnecessary waste, improve efficiency and productivity as well as protect profitability and cash flow.

TIGHITCO, Inc.

Jul 22nd, 2026

TIGHITCO partners with Paperless Parts to improve quoting speed, accuracy, and security.

TIGHITCO partners with Paperless Parts to improve quoting speed, accuracy, and security. Home > news > TIGHITCO partners with Paperless Parts to improve quoting speed, accuracy, and security. July 22, 2026 TIGHITCO is investing in Paperless Parts to build a faster, more accurate quoting process on a secure, CMMC-compliant technology foundation. July 21, 2026 - TIGHITCO, an industry leader in the design, fabrication, and assembly of engineered components for aerospace and industrial applications, today announced its partnership with Paperless Parts, the leading intelligence platform for the industrial supply chain. TIGHITCO will use Paperless Parts to improve the speed and accuracy of its quoting process while continuing to invest in CMMC-compliant technology that supports the security requirements of aerospace and defense manufacturing. Quoting aerospace and defense work requires TIGHITCO to review detailed technical files, understand complex requirements, and coordinate information across multiple functions. Paperless Parts will give their teams a centralized platform for managing incoming RFQs, reviewing technical documentation, building estimates, and maintaining consistency throughout the quoting process. Paperless Parts will help TIGHITCO reduce the manual effort involved in quote setup and technical review. The platform uses AI to extract actionable information from complex manufacturing files, helping estimators identify important requirements earlier and move through RFQs more efficiently. Shared costing logic and standardized workflows will also help TIGHITCO improve consistency across quotes while giving its team better visibility into quote activity and performance. Additionally, Paperless Parts' new multi-site functionality will help TIGHITCO coordinate quoting across its five facilities. Teams will be able to view quoting activity across the organization, search historical and active opportunities across locations, and route work to the facility best equipped to support each program. This added visibility will help TIGHITCO make better use of capabilities and capacity across its footprint while allowing each location to maintain the processes and costing logic specific to its operation. The secure foundation of Paperless Parts was also an important factor in TIGHITCO's decision. As an established supplier to the aerospace and defense industry, TIGHITCO continues to invest in technology that supports evolving cybersecurity and compliance requirements. Paperless Parts is built on a FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent foundation and supports CMMC Level 2 compliance, giving TIGHITCO a secure environment for managing sensitive quoting data. TIGHITCO expects the partnership to help its estimating teams respond to customers faster without sacrificing the careful technical review required for complex manufacturing programs. By reducing repetitive data entry, organizing critical RFQ information in one place, and improving coordination across locations, Paperless Parts will give estimators more time to focus on pricing, manufacturability, risk, and other decisions that directly affect quote accuracy. "Investing in secure, CMMC-compliant technology is an important part of how we continue supporting our aerospace and defense customers," said Mark Withrow, Operating Partner and Chief Executive Officer at TIGHITCO. "Paperless Parts will help us respond to complex RFQs faster, improve consistency across our quoting process, and give our teams more time to focus on the technical details that matter." "TIGHITCO supports highly complex programs where quoting speed, technical accuracy, and data security are all critical," said Jason Ray, Co-Founder and CEO of Paperless Parts. "We're proud to partner with their team and provide the secure quoting infrastructure they need to respond faster while maintaining the rigor their customers expect." About TIGHITCO TIGHITCO is an aerospace and industrial manufacturer specializing in complex composites, insulation and thermal solutions, assemblies and integrated structures, and overhaul support. With roots dating back to 1944, the company provides design, fabrication, finishing, assembly, testing, repair, and lifecycle support from five facilities across the United States and Mexico. TIGHITCO serves customers in aerospace and defense, space, marine, energy, oil and gas, and industrial markets and maintains a range of industry certifications and approvals, including AS9100, AS9110, NADCAP, FAA/EASA repair-station certifications, and ITAR compliance. To learn more, visit tighitco.com. About Paperless Parts Paperless Parts is the leading intelligence platform for the industrial supply chain. The platform uses AI to transform complex technical files into actionable intelligence, enabling manufacturers to quote with greater speed and accuracy, and sourcing teams to procure with greater precision and confidence. Trusted by hundreds of manufacturers and built on a FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent, CMMC-compliant foundation, Paperless Parts is purpose-built for the security and complexity demands of advanced manufacturing. To learn more, visit paperlessparts.com for quoting and estimating or radar.paperlessparts.com for sourcing intelligence.

Associated Press