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Staff Systems Engineer

Moog Inc

Phoenix, AZFull-time$160–190K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$160–190K/yr
Location
Phoenix, AZ
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree, required

Job overview

Moog seeks a Staff Systems Engineer to lead design and production support for Integrated Avionics Units in its Space & Defense business. The role provides technical leadership for space-qualified avionics systems, including high-speed, high-reliability electronics integration, and mentors engineers while refining design practices. The engineer will work onsite in Phoenix, with the role description identifying Gilbert, Arizona as the business location.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Subsystem Product Design, requiredLifecycle Management, requiredDigital Electronics Design, requiredAnalog Electronics Design, requiredPower Electronics Design, requiredRequirements Management, requiredSubsystem Integration, requiredTest Processes, requiredProject Engineering, requiredIBM DOORS, requiredCAMEO, requiredPolarion, requiredTroubleshooting, requiredWritten Communication, requiredVerbal Communication, requiredMentoring, requiredEngineering Leadership, requiredSpace-Grade Systems, nice to haveDesign for Test, nice to haveDesign for Manufacturability, nice to haveSpace and Military Standards, nice to haveTest Platform Architecture, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or Related, requiredMaster's Degree, nice to have7+ Years Engineering Experience, required

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Full job description

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Job Title: Staff Systems Engineer Reporting To: Manager, Value Stream Work Schedule: Onsite – Phoenix, AZRole Overview

Moog is seeking a highly experienced and technically authoritative Staff Systems Engineer to lead design and support production efforts related to the Integrated Avionics Units (IAU) within the Space & Defense business in Gilbert, AZ. The ideal candidate will provide engineering leadership to deliver best-in-class designs for space-qualified avionics systems, mentor peers, and refine design practices for integration of high-speed, high-reliability electronics into a multi-CCA package.

What You’ll Do

  • Act as the technical authority for avionics sub-system design and integration within the group.
  • Architect and design complex Command & Data Handling and Electronics Power Subsystems.
  • Evaluate and provide technical feedback for avionics unit proposal development efforts
  • Conduct and/or leads system & product requirements derivation using internal stakeholder and customer requirements as a basis.
  • Perform deep technical design reviews of peer work and provide final approval for complex designs.
  • Provide guidance and execute on systems level analysis including reliability, FMECA, and radiation. Outcomes of this work will ensure sub-systems reliability in space environments.
  • Establish product-line specific practices and design rules resulting in reusable system architectures, test equipment and methods that can be applied across multiple programs.
  • Lead root-cause investigations and failure analyses; recommend and implement design improvements and corrective actions including reading across the product line.
  • Provide direction, mentoring, and formal training to the engineering team on product life cycle management, and integration and troubleshooting of FPGA, electronics hardware, and mechanical designs
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (hardware, firmware, test, manufacturing) to ensure designs meet performance, manufacturability, and testability requirements.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred.

  • 7+ years of engineering experience in avionics, digital electronics, power systems, or embedded development with increasing technical responsibility.

  • Demonstrated deep expertise in:• Sub-System Product Design & Lifecycle Management

  • Digital, Analog, and Power Electronics Design

  • Sub-Systems Requirement Management

  • Sub-System Integration and Test Processes

  • Project Engineering

  • Experience with IBM DOORs, CAMEO, Polarion, or another industry standard requirements management tool

  • Extensively demonstrated skills in leading troubleshooting efforts during integration and test issues of complex electrical sub-systems.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Proven ability to mentor and lead engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting space-grade systems.
  • Experience with Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
  • Familiarity with relevant space and military standards and processes.
  • Design of Test platform architecture.

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Salary Range Transparency: Phoenix, AZ $160,000.00–$190,000.00 Annually Salary Range Disclaimer The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Moog salary range for this position in the given work location. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Moog's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, employee stock purchase plan, an open paid time off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

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

Moog offers an inclusive workplace, and, as such, affirms the right of every person to participate in all aspects of employment based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact our Human Resources department via phone at 844-367-5787.

No unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. Absent compliance with these pre-conditions resumes submitted directly to any Moog Inc. employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Moog Inc.

How this job compares

Set against the 11,779 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$160–190K/yr
  • Arizona median$99–182K/yr182 salary ranges
  • US median$115–187K/yr8,747 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $175K, is 21% above the Arizona median midpoint ($145K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Arizona.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 274 open Systems Engineer jobs in Arizona and 11,779 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arizona
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,741 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,409 of the 11,779 open Systems Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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