Datalink Integration & Test Engineer – Communications / MANET (all genders)

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STARK in Berlin seeks a Datalink Integration & Test Engineer to bring together MANET/radio systems with our unmanned platforms. You will own the integration from RF front-end to autopilot interfaces, ensuring reliable command-and-control and swarm capabilities.

You will design test campaigns from bench to field, characterize link performance, and work with hardware and systems engineering to deliver a mission-ready datalink for contested environments.

Qualifikationen

• Professional background in Electronics / Communications Engineering or a comparable technical field.
• Hands-on experience integrating MANET / mesh radio or tactical datalink systems into a larger platform.
• Practical test and measurement experience (spectrum analysers, RF link testing, network diagnostics).

Aufgaben

• Integrate established MANET / mesh radio systems into STARK's platform architecture across mechanical, power, RF, and network/software interfaces.
• Define and implement the integration approach for each datalink — antenna placement, RF front-end, IP networking, and interfacing with the autopilot and payload stack.
• Integrate and configure the UAV-to-GCS command-and-control link, ensuring reliable telemetry, control, and video across the full mission profile through to the terminal phase.
• Set up and tune multi-node mesh topologies for UAV-to-UAV connectivity and coordinated swarm operation of multiple effectors, including relay and self-healing behaviour.
• Work closely with hardware, autopilot, and systems engineering to ensure the communication subsystem is correctly matched to the platform and its constraints.
• Design and execute structured test campaigns — bench, hardware-in-the-loop, and field trials — to validate datalink behaviour.
• Characterise link performance across throughput, latency, range, mesh routing behaviour, and resilience under interference and degraded conditions.
• Validate swarm behaviour at the network level — multi-node mesh scaling, UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-GCS connectivity, relay hops, and graceful degradation as nodes join, move, or drop out.
• Build up repeatable test procedures and instrumentation, and produce clear, traceable documentation of setups, methods, and results.

Kenntnisse

Electronics/Comm Eng

MANET/Mesh radios

Test & measurement

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

RF test equipment

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

About Us STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing 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. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments. We’re 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.

About the team

As a Datalink Integration & Test Engineer , you will play a key role in bringing together complex software systems that power our next generation of autonomous platforms.

Your mission

Your mission is to take established, proven MANET (mobile ad-hoc network) radio systems and make them work — reliably, repeatably, and under real-world constraints — inside our unmanned platforms. In this role you focus on the datalinks for our close- and short-range loitering effector and ISR systems, where the link has to stay solid through fast-moving, time-critical mission profiles in contested airspace. You own the path from "commercial radio in a box" to "integrated, tested, mission-ready datalink." This is a hands‑on integration and test role at the boundary of RF hardware, networking, and platform architecture. You own two connections that have to hold up when it counts: the command-and-control link between UAV and ground control station (GCS), and the mesh that lets multiple effectors operate as a coordinated swarm. You aren't just wiring in a radio; you are certifying that command and control survives contact with the real world, and giving the engineering team the hard data to trust it.

Responsibilities

Integration

• Integrate established MANET / mesh radio systems (e.g., Silvus StreamCaster, Persistent Systems Wave Relay, Rajant, Radionor) into STARK's platform architecture across the mechanical, power, RF, and network/software interfaces.
• Define and implement the integration approach for each datalink — antenna placement, RF front-end, IP networking, and interfacing with the autopilot and payload stack.
• Integrate and configure the UAV-to-GCS command-and-control link, ensuring reliable telemetry, control, and video across the full mission profile through to the terminal phase.
• Set up and tune multi-node mesh topologies that enable UAV-to-UAV connectivity and coordinated swarm operation of multiple effectors, including relay and self‑healing behaviour.
• Work closely with hardware, autopilot, and systems engineering to ensure the communication subsystem is correctly matched to the platform and its constraints.

Test & Validation

• Design and execute structured test campaigns — bench, hardware-in-the-loop, and field trials — to validate datalink behaviour.
• Characterise link performance across throughput, latency, range, mesh routing behaviour, and resilience under interference and degraded conditions.
• Validate swarm behaviour at the network level — multi-node mesh scaling, UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-GCS connectivity, relay hops, and graceful degradation as nodes join, move, or drop out.
• Build up repeatable test procedures and instrumentation, and produce clear, traceable documentation of setups, methods, and results.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Translate field and test findings into concrete integration and configuration improvements.
• Support trade‑offs and selection decisions between candidate datalink systems with measured, defensible data.
• Contribute to the evolution of STARK's communication integration standards and test methodology.

Qualifications

Experience & Certifications

• Professional background in Electronics / Communications Engineering or a comparable technical field.
• Hands‑on experience integrating MANET / mesh radio or tactical datalink systems into a larger platform or system.
• Practical test and measurement experience (spectrum analysers, RF link testing, network diag…)

Datalink Integration & Test Engineer – Communications / MANET (all genders) — Stark, Berlin.

Mots-clés : Integration, Software, TestEngineer.