Feynman had a key role in engineering the computations of Manhattan Project. I have no idea what could be more like engineering than this. "With Stanley Frankel and Nicholas Metropolis, he assisted in establishing a system for using IBM punched cards for computation."

But, on the other hand, physics could be described as a way to reverse engineer nature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Manhattan_Proj...