Public summary
Seeking a Senior Hardware Integration Engineer to join a technology company in Germany focusing on developing flight-ready UAV prototypes. The role involves hands-on integration of mechanics, electronics, and embedded systems to create validated flying prototypes. Responsibilities include hardware bring-up, debugging, prototype validation, collaborating across engineering disciplines, and supporting flight tests. The position emphasizes technical execution over management and aims to improve prototype throughput and quality while enabling specialist teams to focus on their disciplines. Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusiveness and diversity.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Munich
- Remote status
- On-site
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Own the transition from subsystem designs to flight-ready UAV prototypes; lead hardware integration, debugging, and validation; perform hands-on work with PCB modifications, mechanical fixtures, wiring harnesses, and embedded hardware validation; act as primary hardware interface to flight test, ensuring tests answer engineering questions and driving improvements from results; develop tools and methods to improve hardware development including test automation and manufacturing test solutions; collaborate across mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and systems engineering teams to ensure successful hardware integration.
Qualifications
Proven experience in hardware integration and prototype execution in multidisciplinary engineering environments; strong hands-on skills in hardware debugging, PCB and mechanical component assembly, embedded hardware validation; ability to collaborate effectively with mechanical, electronics, embedded software, and flight test teams; experience developing tools for hardware validation and test automation; excellent problem-solving skills; ability to lead prototype integration efforts and improve engineering throughput; fluent in English; German language skills not explicitly required.