Senior Electrical Engineer – Flight Control Systems

Moog; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

401k matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Accounts

Job summary

Moog is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead design, integration, and testing of automatic flight control systems for aircraft. The position is onsite in Buffalo, NY and involves hands-on work across electrical architecture, lab validation, and flight test support.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of electrical design and avionics experience, with strong wiring, power distribution, and interface document skills, plus a track record of cross-functional collaboration on safety-critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in electrical design, integration, and test.
• Experience with avionics, embedded systems, or other high-reliability hardware development.
• Strong understanding of electrical interfaces, power distribution, signal integrity, and wiring practices.
• Hands-on experience debugging complex hardware systems in lab and integration environments.
• Ability to read and produce schematics, wiring diagrams, interface documents, and technical specifications.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams supporting aircraft or other safety-critical systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical design and integration for automatic flight control system hardware and related subsystems
• Develop electrical architectures, wiring diagrams, harnessing concepts, and interface control documents
• Define, review, and verify electrical interface requirements across hardware, software, and system boundaries
• Support selection and integration of avionics, sensors, actuators, compute platforms, and power systems
• Build, troubleshoot, and validate prototype electrical assemblies and flight‑critical hardware
• Support lab planning, bench testing, integration testing, and flight test preparation
• Diagnose electrical faults, perform root‑cause analysis, and drive corrective actions
• Collaborate with systems, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and flight test teams to resolve integration issues
• Support requirements development, technical trade studies, risk assessments, and formal design reviews
• Contribute to configuration management, documentation, and design assurance for flight‑critical systems
• Evaluate redundancy, reliability, failure modes, and safety impacts of electrical architectures
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on electrical integration and prototype development

Skills

Electrical design

Systems integration

Power distribution

Wiring practices

Lab testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

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Job description

Moog is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead design, integration, and testing of automatic flight control systems for aircraft. The position is onsite in Buffalo, NY and involves hands-on work across electrical architecture, lab validation, and flight test support.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of electrical design and avionics experience, with strong wiring, power distribution, and interface document skills, plus a track record of cross-functional collaboration on safety-critical