C-UAS Payload Integration Engineer

Stark; München; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STARK is a defense technology company pushing the envelope in autonomous systems integration. You will be the technical glue uniting hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems, translating constraints between teams, and solving interface conflicts on the bench rather than in PowerPoint slides.

This role requires hands-on experience with multi‑team technical programs, strong traceability, and a pragmatic, execution‑first mindset. Fluency in English is essential; German is a plus.

Qualifikationen

• Proven system integration experience in hardware, payload, embedded, defence, or aviation environments.
• Technical depth to work as a peer with engineers, not just manage timelines.
• Track record owning technical dependencies and interfaces across multiple disciplines.
• Background in systems/hardware engineering or technical program management with hands-on integration exposure.
• Experience on complex, multi-team technical programs in defence, aerospace, automotive, or regulated sectors.
• Pragmatic, execution-focused style with clear communication and bias for action.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Own day-to-day technical integration across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems with engineering teams.
• Apply discipline across integration activities, ensuring traceability between requirements, design, and verification.
• Translate requirements and constraints between hardware, software, payload, and systems teams to resolve interface ambiguity.
• Identify and resolve technical dependencies across teams to avoid blockers.
• Introduce structure, documentation, and change control to the integration function without slowing the program.
• Work hands-on on test floors and benches to solve problems in person.
• Act as technical sparring partner to the integration lead and support team scaling.
• Shape the build-out of the wider integration team and participate in interviewing and role definition.
• Report integration status, risks, and blockers in business terms for leadership action.

Kenntnisse

System integration

Hardware engineering

Embedded systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical interviewing

English proficiency

Jobbeschreibung

STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionising the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop, and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective — providing operators with a decisive edge in contested environments.

We are focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems — not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe, today.

You'll be the technical glue holding together a fast-moving hardware and payload integration environment. The person who turns parallel engineering workstreams into one working system instead of seven disconnected ones. Acting as direct technical counterpart to our integration lead, you'll bring process discipline and hands‑on execution to a function that's still being built. This is not a coordination role with a PowerPoint deck attached, it's a seat at the bench, with the authority and technical credibility to make decisions stick.

• Own day-to-day technical integration across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems, working directly with engineering teams to resolve interface conflicts as they arise.

• Apply discipline across integration activities, maintaining traceability between requirements, design, and verification.

• Translate requirements and constraints between hardware, software, payload, and systems engineering teams, closing ambiguity at the interfaces rather than escalating it.

• Identify and resolve technical dependencies across teams before they become integration blockers, not after.

• Introduce structure, documentation, and change control into an integration function that doesn't have it yet, without freezing the speed the program needs.

• Work hands‑on with engineers on the test floor and at the bench when a problem needs solving in person, not via status update.

• Act as a technical sparring partner to the integration lead, sharing context and pressure‑testing decisions across the integration scope.

• Shape the build‑out of the wider integration team, contributing to role definition and technical interviewing as the team scales.

• Report integration status, risks, and blockers in terms program leadership can act on, translating engineering reality into business decisions.

• Proven system integration experience in hardware, payload, embedded, defence, or aviation environments.

• Technical depth strong enough to work as a peer with engineers, not just manage their timelines.

• Track record owning technical dependencies and interfaces across multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously.

• Background in either systems/hardware engineering or technical program management, with hands‑on integration exposure either way.

• Experience on complex, multi-team technical programs, defence, aerospace, automotive, or comparably regulated sectors.

• A pragmatic, low‑ego, execution‑first operating style: you bring structure to chaos, you don't wait for chaos to resolve itself.

• Fluent English. German will be considered a plus.

• Experience building or scaling a technical/integration team from scratch.

• Background in UAS, C‑UAS, or loitering munition systems specifically.

• Familiarity with formal systems engineering tooling (requirements management, configuration/change control platforms).

• Prior experience in a scale‑up or fast‑growth engineering environment.