Sr Hardware Project Engineer

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Job Title:

Sr Hardware Project Engineer
Reporting To:
Management, Product Engineering

Work Schedule:

Onsite – Phoenix, AZ

Moog’s Gilbert, AZ facility is a leading designer of spaceflight hardware and is part of the Spacecraft Avionics business unit in the Space & Defense Group. Moog has partnered with NASA to provide electronic solutions for the Artemis Orion Crew Capsule, Viper Lunar Rover, Satellite Laser Communications Relay, OSIRIS-REX to study asteroid composition, along with complete satellite buses for the defense department.

We are seeking an experienced electrical engineer (EE) to be the project technical lead and point of contact for customers on custom spacecraft avionics projects. Project scope includes architecture definition, design & development, component procurement, manufacturing, unit/environmental testing, and product requirement verification. The successful candidate will coordinate the work of electrical / mechanical / FPGA / software designers, test engineers, product delivery technicians, specialty design analysts, and other key members of a cross‑functional project team in the pursuit of successful project execution.

Working jointly with the program manager, the Senior Lead HW Project Engineer shares responsibility for execution to cost and schedule targets throughout the course of a project. Facilitative leadership between program management, quality, and operations groups will be required, ensuring product development activities follow Moog’s phase‑gate process. The Senior Lead HW Project Engineer also manages stakeholder requirements, interpreting and deriving lower‑level requirements to ensure delivery of a product that meets all customer needs.

• Serve as lead responsible engineer and technical point of contact to customers on design, development, and production of space electronics.
• Provide effective project leadership to cross‑functional and cross‑site engineering teams for recurring production and development / qualification programs.
• Manage budget, schedule, risk, and technical execution for development and production projects for which you are responsible.
• Manage scope creep.
• Manage product requirements from internal and external customer stakeholders through product development evolution, deriving design and test requirements necessary to ensure product 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 the verification activities across the project team to ensure all product requirements are verified and properly documented.
• Support bid and proposal of new projects by providing scope definitions, defining project schedules, assessing technical compliance, generating technical volume and providing engineering cost estimates.
• Contribute to conceptual design and analysis discussions and efforts for spacecraft computing, power transfer, and command and data handling system electronics.
• Author and review engineering analyses and reports.
• Ensure project data deliverables meet customer specifications and are delivered on time.
• Assist in design verification testing and recurring production hardware testing.
• Read and understand printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) schematics.
• Use laboratory measurement equipment to diagnose and troubleshoot electronic failures down to the discrete component / integrated circuit level.

• Bachelor of Science (required) or Master of Science (preferred) in relevant Engineering discipline.
• 5 – 10 years of experience in electronic systems leading EE PCBA design (schematic and layout) or embedded software / FPGA / ASIC design.
• Proven project engineering track record leading, coordinating and facilitating a team of…