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FEA Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 38+ fea jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include CHAOS Industries, Panthalassa, and Boeing.

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9-day fortnights 8
unlimited PTO 15
best places to work 1

Updated August 26, 2026

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Mechanical Product Design and Analysis Engineer

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Boeing · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$99k – $162kPro · early access

Senior Associate, Mechanical Engineering

NEW

L3Harris Technologies · Hybrid · Carlsbad, CA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Structural Analysis Engineer

Boeing · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$166k – $224k

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Mechanical Engineer Intern

L3Harris Technologies · Onsite · Greenville, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Dynamic Environments Engineer

United Launch Alliance · Hybrid · Centennial, CO, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Principal Scientist, Oral Formulation Sciences

Merck · Hybrid · Rahway, NJ, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Lead Engineer – Mechanical Engineering

AV · Onsite · Germantown, MD, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight$128k – $195k

V&V Engineer, Mechanical

Waabi · Onsite · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior / Staff Supplier Quality Engineer

Waabi · Onsite · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Subject Matter Expert - Space Electronics Packaging and Mechanical Product Design and Analysis Engineer

1mo

Boeing · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$211k – $285k

Principal Mechanical Engineer

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Mechanical Engineer

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$110k – $138k

Design and Development Engineers

2mo

Carbon ThreeSixty · Onsite · Chippenham, UK

66 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Marine Engineer, Marine Operations

Panthalassa · Onsite · Portland, OR, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO$180k – $230k

Mechanical Design Engineer

1mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Mechanical Engineer

23d

General Dynamics UK · Hybrid · Hastings, UK

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight£46k – £60k

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Modules

29d

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$182k – $214k

Mechanical Engineer

2mo

Waabi · Onsite · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Thermal Engineer

16d

Arista Networks · Onsite · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$180k – $275k

Principal Mechanical Engineer

19d

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$175k – $215k

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Employers hiring for Fea on this page include CHAOS Industries, Panthalassa, and Boeing. Fea roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Fea is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Fea roles span the full seniority range — we list 24 open roles requiring Fea across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Fea hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Fea roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Fea candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Fea on current listings.

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