AI Engineer – Agentic Solutions & Digital Thread

Moog Inc.; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual profit sharing

401k matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending and Health Savings

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Moog Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Solutions & Digital Thread to lead AI-enabled enterprise applications. You will design agentic architectures, build advanced RAG systems, and ensure security, governance, and auditable operations across a complex aerospace manufacturing environment.

Collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring junior staff are essential. The role emphasizes deterministic guardrails, scalable data pipelines, and deployment on Azure with Databricks and modern AI

Qualifications

• Typically, a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development, with 3+ years focused on AI/ML solution development.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, or equivalent), MCP (Model Context Protocol), multi-agent orchestration, and secure tool integration patterns.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing advanced RAG architectures, including vector databases, embedding models, retrieval strategies, and Context Engineering techniques to ground AI responses in enterprise knowledge.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (C#, .NET, or TypeScript).
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and Agile/DevOps delivery.
• Experience with Databricks, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise data integration patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and integration platforms (Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, Kafka).
• Exposure to MDM, data governance, data quality frameworks, or rules-based systems.
• Exposure to digital thread concepts in manufacturing, including PLM (Teamcenter), ERP (SAP), MES, and QMS integration.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or regulated manufacturing environments (ITAR, EAR, CMMC, DFARS).
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF) and responsible AI practices.
• Azure certifications (Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic software architectures where AI agents perform code generation, test automation, and documentation, always under human oversight with deterministic guardrails and clear accountability boundaries.
• Build agent workflows that exercise rules management, auditability, deterministic logic, high trust thresholds, and reusability across domains, using MDM and data quality platforms as foundational workloads, with fallback-to-human protocols for safety-critical decisions.
• Design and implement advanced RAG architectures that ground AI responses in authoritative enterprise data.
• Build and maintain vector stores, embedding pipelines, and hybrid retrieval strategies optimized for domain-specific technical content.
• Enforce data classification, export control boundaries, and role-based access controls.
• Develop event-driven integrations aligned to digital thread principles.
• Build AI-enabled capabilities that consume digital thread events to automate downstream decision-making and exception detection.
• Implement thread contracts to ensure deterministic, auditable system behavior that eliminates manual reconciliation.
• Design and maintain AI-enabled applications using Python, C#/.NET on Microsoft Azure, leveraging Azure OpenAI, Claude, Azure AI Search, Databricks, and agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangChain, or equivalent).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, and operational runbooks for production-grade reliability.
• Implement rule-level execution logs, record-level lineage, match/merge traceability, and interface health dashboards with explainability layers for state changes and agent decisions.
• Ensure embedded governance-by-design and compliance with ITAR/EAR, CMMC/DFARS, and CUI handling requirements.
• Collaborate with product owners, enterprise architects, data teams, and business stakeholders.
• Coach and review the work of junior developers.

Skills

AI/ML development

Agentic AI frameworks

Python

C#/.NET

TypeScript

Azure services

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks

Event-driven architecture

MDM/data governance

Digital Thread

Aerospace/defense experience

AI governance

Azure certifications

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

LangChain/LangGraph

CrewAI

Azure OpenAI

Kafka

Azure Service Bus

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Engineering/AI

Tools

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

LangChain/LangGraph

CrewAI

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Azure Service Bus

Event Grid

Kafka

Job description

Moog Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Solutions & Digital Thread to lead AI-enabled enterprise applications. You will design agentic architectures, build advanced RAG systems, and ensure security, governance, and auditable operations across a complex aerospace manufacturing environment.

Collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring junior staff are essential. The role emphasizes deterministic guardrails, scalable data pipelines, and deployment on Azure with Databricks and modern AI