Senior Packaging Engineer

About the Role

Wing is looking for a Senior Packaging Design Engineer to join our team in Palo Alto, CA. Operating as a technical authority and key partner across hardware and operations, you will help define, design, and commercialize structural packaging solutions across logistics, customer-facing interactions, and specialized hardware projects. In this role, you will provide deep subject-matter expertise and Design for Manufacturability guidance to cross-functional partners—including providing specialized packaging design advice to aircraft design owners—while balancing structural protection, user experience, unit cost, and sustainability.

What You’ll Do

• Provide packaging design expertise and technical guidance across logistics, customer touchpoints, and specialized hardware projects, collaborating closely with aircraft design owners to align packaging solutions with vehicle-level constraints.
• Select optimal materials and processes to balance structural integrity, cost, and user experience.
• Define test requirements for packaging tests and guide Contract Manufacturers in establishing evaluation methods for package designs, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Support equipment, line, and transit trials alongside cross-functional and manufacturing partners, establishing standard testing methodologies and analyzing empirical data to resolve root causes of field failures.
• Author and maintain comprehensive engineering documentation, including packaging specifications, CAD drawings, process instructions, and BOMs, while ensuring quality standards, artwork compliance, and regulatory documentation across product lines.
• Partner with Procurement and Operations to evaluate cost estimates, drive value analysis, and optimize packaging mass, landed costs, fulfillment speed, stack density, and material standardization.

What You’ll Need

• Minimum of 5+ years of direct experience as a Packaging Design Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, or Industrial Designer, with a track record of developing, validating, and commercializing complex packaging solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of packaging design principles, structural mechanics, converting/molding technologies, and hybrid packaging structures.
• Expert-level command of 2D/3D CAD platforms (e.g., ArtiosCAD, Esko, SolidWorks, CATIA) and palletization/pack-density software (e.g., CAPE, TOPS).
• Familiarity with industry-standard package testing protocols, including transit simulation and structural integrity testing, to ensure reliability across product life cycles.
• Outstanding communication skills, with a proven ability to translate user experience and operational requirements into technical specifications and explain DFM constraints clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in shared-ownership environments, navigate high-ambiguity trade-offs, and drive multiple complex projects to completion.
• Proven ability to convert product and business needs into detailed technical specifications for internal and external development initiatives.
• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally as required.