Senior Aircraft Cabin Design Engineer

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EnCore, a Boeing subsidiary, is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to support the LIFT team with innovative seating design from concept through production. The role requires delivering high-quality, manufacturable solutions while balancing regulatory, customer, and company targets.

Responsibilities include leading design efforts, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to optimize seating components for cost, weight, and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with at least 1 year leading or mentoring assigned employees.
• Strong engineering design and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with aircraft seating design, mechanism design, or related manufacturing processes.
• Strong knowledge of CATIA V5.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Ability to mentor and support less experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Apply sound engineering principles in the development of aircraft seating products.
• Provide design support for current and new product design projects.
• Create 3D models of individual components and assemblies in CATIA V5.
• Research and verify the design criteria and needs per customer, regulatory and company requirements.
• Design and optimize mechanical and structural components for aircraft seating.
• Develop and optimize designs which adhere to cost, volume, and quality targets established by company management and customer demand.
• Ensure designs are optimized for manufacturing and assembly, including soliciting observations from fabricators, operators, quality assurance, product support, and supply chain specialists.
• Propose and verify design concepts, including material and process selections.
• Create design proposals, including presentations, and objectively demonstrate the benefits and rationale behind proposed designs.
• Create and maintain design specific schedules and action plans.
• Must have the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in and understanding on a variety of manufacturing processes, including injection molding, composites forming, CNC machining, stampings, sheetmetal forming, forgings, castings, and thermoforming.
• Understanding of material properties, including metals, general plastics and composites.
• Able to design, complex, integrated kinematic assemblies.
• Must have extensive experience in either aircraft seating design, design of mechanism, or manufacturing processes such as injection molding, forging, casting, or composite forming.
• Able to mentor less experienced design engineers.
• Review and provide feedback of design proposal from design engineers.
• Able to communicate with customers on design requirements and proposals.
• Able to communicate with suppliers to ensure feasibility and optimization of design.

Skills

Strong engineering design & problem‑ol

Education

4 Year Degree

Tools

CATIA V5

Job description

EnCore, a Boeing subsidiary, is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to support the LIFT team with innovative seating design from concept through production. The role requires delivering high-quality, manufacturable solutions while balancing regulatory, customer, and company targets.

Responsibilities include leading design efforts, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to optimize seating components for cost, weight, and performance.