Senior HW Project Engineer

Job Title

Senior HW Project Engineer

Onsite – Phoenix, AZ

Management, Project Engineering

Lead hardware project engineering for custom space electronics, coordinating cross‑functional teams, managing project scope, cost, schedule, and requirements. Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers, ensuring product development follows Moog’s phase‑gate process.

• Lead responsible engineer and technical point of contact to customers on design, development, and production of custom space electronics.
• Provide effective project leadership to cross‑functional and cross‑site engineering teams for development / qualification / production programs.
• Assign tasks, review work product for technical accuracy.
• Manage budget, schedule, risk and technical execution for development and production projects.
• Actively manage scope creep.
• Manage product requirements from internal and external customers, derive design and test requirements to ensure performance, functionality, reliability and manufacturability.
• Collaborate with designers to validate conceptual solutions through trade studies and analyses.
• Allocate product requirements to functional disciplines and coordinate verification activities across the project team.
• Author and review engineering analyses and reports.
• Ensure project data deliverables meet customer specifications and are delivered on time.
• Author test procedures, assist in design verification testing and production hardware testing.
• Read and understand printed circuit board assembly schematics.
• Use laboratory measurement equipment to diagnose and troubleshoot electronic failures down to the discrete component/integrated circuit level.
• Resolve non‑conformance issues, lead Failure Review Board meetings, champion Root Cause and Corrective Action efforts.
• Assign tasks to and review work of system engineering, product engineers, and other lead engineers; provide mentorship to junior engineers.

• Bachelor of Science (required) or Master of Science (preferred) in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 7–10 years experience in electronic systems leading EE PCBA design (schematic/layout) and/or embedded microprocessor/FPGA/ASIC design.
• Proven project engineering track record leading, coordinating and facilitating a team of technical contributors during product development execution.
• Experience leading cross‑functional project teams and related cost, schedule, risk management during prototyping and manufacturing phases.
• Experience authoring, managing, deriving, and verifying requirements for complex electronic systems.
• Prefer direct user experience with a requirement management database such as IBM Rational DOORS, JAMA Connect, Siemens Polarion, etc.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Self‑starting instincts, strong sense of project ownership.
• Ability to work independently with a strong technical foundation while proactively identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Demonstrated fluency in communication with internal and external customers; confident public speaker.
• Deep understanding of computer architecture and digital interface technologies.
• Experience designing or specifying space‑based, radiation‑hardened electronic components is highly desired.
• Ability to work onsite and be the primary POC during product testing campaigns.

This position requires access to U.S. export‑controlled information.

Phoenix, AZ $–$ Annually

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