Manufacturing Engineer

Boeing; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 64,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Boeing in Chicago is seeking a junior Manufacturing Engineer to join a hybrid IL team. The role features mentorship and hands-on work across cloud-native migrations, Flask dashboards, and REST API integration, with a focus on resilience and rapid problem solving.

Salary ranges from $64,000 to $105,000, with the opportunity to learn and grow in a fast-moving technology environment at Boeing. This position emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering practical prototypes using

Qualifications

• Junior manufacturing engineer with hybrid IL location.
• Willingness to mentor and share knowledge with less experienced teammates.
• Ability to thrive in fast-changing requirements and high-visibility environment.

Responsibilities

• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Build Flask dashboards so Boeing's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers.
• Translate a napkin idea from Boeing founders into a Ruby quality-focused prototype.
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Boeing can explain.
• Spike a Resilience proof of concept fast when Boeing needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Boeing.

Skills

Teaching

Adaptability

Resilience

Networking

Tools

Flask

REST API

Ruby

Selenium

Job description

We believe the best technology engineers ask why before they ask how, and that's the Manufacturing Engineer we're recruiting in Chicago. This Manufacturing Engineer role hands junior talent $64,000 - $105,000, a hybrid arrangement in IL, and the latitude to call the shots.

Key Responsibilities

• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Build Flask dashboards so Boeing's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
• Translate a napkin idea from Boeing founders into a Ruby quality-focused prototype
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Boeing can explain
• Spike a Resilience proof of concept fast when Boeing needs a yes-or-no answer
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Boeing

What You’ll Bring

• A Chicago network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes

Boeing began as a side project in Chicago and grew into the performance-driven platform thousands of technology users now rely on. Honest feedback is a gift here, and we try to wrap it kindly before we hand it over.

This junior role pays $64,000 - $105,000 and comes with structured mentorship designed to sharpen your Resilience and Flask over time.

Demand on the technology team has us moving fast to fill this seat.

Pair your REST API with our Selenium-heavy team and watch what Boeing can build.