Application Engineer

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:

Application EngineerReporting To:

Management, General EngineeringWork Schedule:

Onsite – Amsterdam, NL Moog Inc. is a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision motion control products and systems. Moog’s high-performance systems find their way in military and commercial aircraft, satellites, and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, industrial machinery, marine applications, and medical equipment.

Moog B.V. in Nieuw-Vennep is an engineering-focused company with dynamic growth, passionate about offering high-tech simulation and test technologies for global aircraft, automotive and motion control application markets. Currently 125 highly qualified and motivated people are working in the unique atmosphere of our facility in Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands.

Our main products, within the Business Unit Simulation & Test in Nieuw-Vennep, are the Motion Systems for creating the illusion of actual flight/drive, Control Loading Systems providing advanced force feedback on the pilot’s controls inside a simulator and Aerospace & Automotive Test Systems for material, structural and system testing. We serve a wide variety of customers, including global OEM’s such as Airbus, Boeing, BMW, Ford, etc.

To re-enforce our engineering team, we are looking for an:

Application Engineer, Simulation Market Segment

The function:

As part of a larger Engineering Group, the Application Engineer is responsible for a variety of Flight -and other type of Simulator Applications. Being the primary interface between the Engineering team and the customer, this is a very dynamic and exciting position. Not only will it take you to our customers across Europe and further, but it will also allow you to work on some of the most intriguing and high-tech (Flight) Simulator Systems. The Application Engineer is primarily responsible for assessment of, setting up, tuning, and troubleshooting various types of Flight Simulators. These can be new systems as well as upgrades. In addition, the Application Engineer supports our Production Department with in-house testing, and takes the lead in the execution of FAT’s and SAT’s. The Application Engineer is also responsible for understanding the customers’ requirements and providing our customers with the advice and best practices. Further, the Application Engineer understands our customers’ future needs and translates them into a proposal for future product development by our Systems Engineers.

As the Application Engineer is our main technical point of contact for our customers, he/she is expected to travel frequently to set up and test our systems at the customer’s facility. The mechanical assessment and verification of the systems is also a significant part of it. This provides the possibility to travel to unique places at customer sites throughout Europe and beyond.

Role and responsibilities:

• Performs hands-on assessment of the mechanical hardware, tuning and testing of Moog’s systems, both in the factory and on site at the customer.
• Understands customers’ requirements and specifications and uses these as a bases for the customization and configuration of hardware and software.
• (Fine) tunes control systems for optimal performance.
• Takes responsibility of a project or program’s full scope and makes sure the customers need is met.
• Responsible for in-house engineering work as part of (upgrade) projects.
• Has extensive knowledge of customer applications, which include flight simulators, driving simulators, and control cabinets.
• Uses his/her knowledge, field experience and inputs / challenges from cus