Configuration Design Engineer (Mid-Level, Senior or Subject Matter Expert)

Configuration Design Engineer (Mid-Level, Senior or Subject Matter Expert)

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000408641

Date Posted:

2024-02-08

Location:

USA - Everett, WA, USA - Renton, WA

Job Description Qualifications:

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is seeking Configuration Design Engineers to join their Airplane Configuration & Integration (AC&I) organization in BCA Product Development (PD) in Everett and/or Renton, WA.

The primary location for this position is Everett, WA but the successful candidate must be willing to work throughout the Puget Sound region.

In this role you will be part of a team that leads the design, development and integration of innovative, world-class commercial aerospace vehicles. We shape how the world travels. You will collaborate with engineering leaders, customers and partners to lead multi-disciplinary engineering design teams. You will demonstrate a growth mindset, can-do attitude, versatility, flexibility and excellent communication and leadership skills.

We are looking for experienced airplane designers with a range of the following skills and abilities:

• Broad knowledge of airplane-level requirements and interrelated design conditions, and the ability to conceptually size and lay out market-leading commercial air vehicles

• Leadership in the preliminary design process – able to bring multi-disciplinary design teams to an optimized trade study decision

• A resolute optimist, a visionary of new technologies and methods to continually advance the state of the art in commercial aviation

• Technical depth in various airplane design disciplines – a critical thinker knowledgeable about fundamentally sound airplane architectures

• Ability to quantitatively explain technical conclusions through analytical data and to create or develop analytical tool capability when necessary

• Advocate of the airplane as a balanced market and technical solution

Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including; Mid-Level, Senior or Subject Matter Expert Configuration Design Engineers.

Position Responsibilities:

• Synthesizes new and innovative conceptual/preliminary aerospace vehicles

• Leads development of aerospace vehicle requirements (e.g., range, payload, operating and lifecycle cost)

• Designs and analyzes vehicle configurations from customer requirements

• Leads multi-discipline trade studies to assess design space and concept viability

• Defines, proposes and leads innovative trade studies to meet complex design space, cost effectiveness and regulatory requirements

• Develops multi-disciplinary configuration optimization tools and processes

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Everett and/or Renton, WA.

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required.  “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.  

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Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an engineering or science-related field

• 5+ years of related work experience

Preferred Qualification (Desired Skills / Experience):

• 9 or more years of related aerospace work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 14 or more years of related aerospace work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Aeronautical/Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering degree

• Working/Comprehensive/Expert knowledge of aircraft performance in one or more of the following areas: aerodynamics, stability and control, propulsion, structures, payloads or airplane systems

• Working/Comprehensive/Expert knowledge of engineering design/analysis tools, such as CATIA, CAMEO

• Experience with Multi-disciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization, applied to aerospace vehicle product development

• Experience developing interactive user interface computer software for configuration synthesis

• Experience with object-oriented programming and ‘clean code’

• Proficient in one or more computer languages (Python, VB.net, C#, etc.)

Typical Education/Experience: 

• Mid-Level (Level 3): Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics