Design Engineer

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Staff Design Engineer

Sr. Manager, Mechanical Design Engineering

Onsite – Buffalo, NY

Moog’s Space and Defense Group is projecting significant growth driven by high levels of U.S. Department of Defense growth. The East Aurora, NY Hypersonic Vehicle Systems (HVS) Team supplies a variety of complex integrated guidance, navigation, and control (iGNC) systems that can include Electro-Mechanical Actuation Systems, Thrust Vector Control Systems, Thermal Batteries, Attitude Control Systems, and a Multi-Effector Controller for hypersonic vehicles.

As the Staff Design Engineer, you'll provide strategic technical leadership across the full product lifecycle, helping ensure our teams deliver innovative, high-quality solutions that meet customer commitments and business objectives. You'll lead through collaboration, technical credibility, and sound decision-making, helping teams navigate complex technical and business challenges while maintaining focus on cost, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the technical compliance of critical system attributes like safety, reliability, performance, and producibility for Moog products in development and/or production in support of a given customer or platform.

You will have the responsibility and leadership to help mentor a growing team of dynamic engineers. There will be opportunities to leverage resources in East Aurora, NY (Moog’s headquarters) as well as other sites.

With broad technical autonomy, you’ll lead complex engineering efforts, drive technical decisions, coordinate across disciplines and organizations, and serve as a key technical interface with customers and external partners. You’ll have the opportunity to influence both the technology and the direction of the program.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of relevant design experience, actuator and controller design experience preferred.
• 7+ years of aerospace, defense, or closely related industry experience.
• 5+ years supporting complex product development programs.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance is required. Currently holding a Secret or Top-Secret clearance is highly preferred.
• Approximately up to 25% travel to customer sites.
• Demonstrated experience across the full engineering lifecycle, from concept and development through integration, test, and production
• Experience preparing for and presenting customer design and program reviews
• Familiarity with Agile development processes

• Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the product lifecycle
• Ensure end-to-end products are designed, integrated, and tested to meet program requirements
• Lead and participate in technical trade studies, balancing mechanical, physical, environmental, payload, power, propulsion, thermal, communications, and attitude-control requirements
• Support major program design, integration, qualification, and readiness reviews
• Support Basis of Estimates (BOEs) for program tasks and new business opportunities
• Communicate development status and establish meaningful metrics to track execution and technical progress
• Define technical objectives and drive solutions to complex engineering problems
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