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Structures and Payload Design Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level) (Payload Systems Design)

Boeing
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2026
πŸ’° $144,100/yr($96,300/yr – $144,100/yr)

About the role

Structures and Payload Design Engineer (Associate or Mid-Level) (Payload Systems Design)

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Payloads Organization within Boeing Commercial Aircraft is seeking Structures and Payload Design Engineers (Associate or Mid-Level) in Everett or Renton, WA to support our Seats Integration Team (SIT). Seat Engineers are responsible for managing the installation, integration, and certification of multiple development passenger seat programs into our Boeing aircrafts by overseeing supplier seat designs to ensure all customer, regulatory, and Boeing requirements are met.

Success in this role, requires extensive coordination with Customer Engineering, Payload Configuration, Supplier Management, Seat Suppliers, Airline Customers, numerous interfacing program commodity teams, regulatory administration, FAA, and factory personnel. Β In addition, a strong engineering foundation is required to review and approve supplier technical data, understand certification test requirements, prepare engineering releases to support seat and systems installations, author and release compliance summary reports.Β 

Domestic and International travel is required for this role.

Payloads (Seats) are seeking candidates with experience in any of the following areas:

  • Engineering support and project leadership within a production system

  • Direct engagement working with/for aerospace suppliers or airlines

  • Validating/demonstrating compliance to regulatory requirements

  • Working with regulators

  • Design for manufacturing

Position Responsibilities:

  • Develops, integrates and documents structural and interior payload system requirements to establish the system design

  • Develops, maintains and modifies structural and interior payload system and component designs, using 3-D Computer Aided Design tools and/or other design methods, to provide product definition to other engineering groups, production operations, suppliers and external customers throughout the product lifecycle

  • Performs, integrates analytical and test results to validate and verify systems and components meet requirements and specifications

  • Manages supplier development, test and production activities and coordinates with the supplier to optimize the design and achieve program goals

  • Develops new design/analysis processes and tools to improve the effectiveness, quality and efficiency of the development effort

  • Investigates emerging technologies to develop concepts for future product designs to meet projected requirements

  • Works under general direction

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus on Mechanical, Civil, Aerospace Aeronautical or Material Sciences)

  • 2+ years of experience working with or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience working with or equivalent industry experience

  • Knowledge of payloads engineering releases and configuration management processes

  • Ability to travel (10-20 percent) International and Domestic

  • Possess strong attention to detail and effective collaboration and communication skills, both written and verbal, within the team and externally.

  • Experience in CATIA, ENOVIA, IVT, DCCS, and REDARS

  • Experience in reviewing technical documents

Union:

This is a union represented position

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

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