C-UAS Payload Integration Manager

NIF; München; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STARK in Munich is building a fast-paced hardware and payload integration environment for autonomous systems. You will act as the technical glue, owning day-to-day integration across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems, and ensuring traceability from requirements to verification.

As the integration lead's technical counterpart, you’ll bring discipline, hands-on execution, and the ability to resolve complex dependencies. Fluent English is required; German is a plus.

Qualifikationen

• Proven system integration experience across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems.
• Technical depth to work as a peer with engineers, not just manage timelines.
• Track record owning interfaces across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Background in systems/hardware engineering or technical program management with hands-on integration.
• Experience on complex, multi-team programs in defence or aerospace.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Own day-to-day technical integration across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, design, and verification.
• Translate requirements between hardware, software, payload, and systems engineering teams.
• Identify and resolve dependencies across teams to prevent blockers.
• Introduce structure and change control to the integration function without slowing progress.
• Work hands-on with engineers on the test floor.
• Report integration status, risks, and blockers to program leadership.

Kenntnisse

System integration

Hardware integration

Embedded systems

Defence/aviation domain

Tools

Requirements management

Configuration management

Systems engineering tooling

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.