Senior Hardware Integration Engineer

TwentyFour Industries; München; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

TwentyFour Industries in Munich is seeking a hands-on Hardware Integration Engineer to bridge mechanical, electronics and embedded software into flight-ready UAVs. The role focuses on prototype execution, debugging, and validation, not people management.

You will collaborate across disciplines to enable rapid iteration, lead hardware bring-up, and interface with Flight Test to ensure tests answer engineering questions and drive improvements.

Qualifikationen

• Hands-on engineering role across mechanics, electronics and embedded software.
• Ability to debug across multiple disciplines and integrate subsystems.
• Lead prototype integration and hardware bring-up with rapid iteration.

Aufgaben

• Own the transition from subsystem designs to flight-ready prototypes.
• Lead prototype integration, hardware bring-up and multidisciplinary debugging.
• Prepare aircraft for testing and ensure tests answer engineering questions.
• Develop tools and methods to improve hardware development and prototype workflows.
• Hardware integration engineering to extract learning from flight tests.

Kenntnisse

Hands-on engineering

Multidisciplinary debugging

Prototype integration

Hardware bring-up

Tools

PCB design

Embedded firmware

Test automation

Jobbeschreibung

As TwentyFour grows, our bottleneck is no longer just designing individual subsystems-it's integrating them into reliable, flight-ready UAVs. Today, much of the knowledge and decision-making required to bring mechanics, electronics and embedded systems together sits with a small number of senior engineers. As prototype frequency increases and multiple products are developed in parallel, this creates both a throughput bottleneck and a key-person dependency.

This is a deeply hands-on engineering role, not a project management or people management position.

The Hardware Integration Engineer works across Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Software and Flight Test to ensure complete UAV systems are successfully integrated, debugged, validated and ready for flight.

The role combines practical engineering with technical leadership of prototype execution.

Core Responsibilities

Hardware Integration & Prototype Execution Own the transition from subsystem designs to complete flight-ready prototypes. Lead prototype integration, hardware bring-up and multidisciplinary debugging. Identify and resolve integration issues before they become flight test problems. Ensure prototypes are built, validated and technically ready for testing.

Hands-on Engineering

Remain actively involved in engineering work across multiple disciplines, including:

• PCB modifications, interface boards and wiring harnesses.
• Mechanical prototype components, fixtures and integration hardware.
• Hardware debugging, assembly, rework and rapid prototyping.
• Embedded bring-up and hardware validation activities where required.

The role complements specialist engineers rather than replacing them.

Flight Test Interface

Act as the primary Hardware Engineering interface to Flight Test by:

• Preparing aircraft for testing.
• Ensuring tests answer the intended engineering questions.
• Supporting investigation of hardware issues.
• Driving engineering improvements from flight test results.

Flight Test owns test execution; this role owns ensuring Hardware Engineering extracts maximum learning from it.

Hardware Enablement

Develop tools and methods that improve hardware development, including:

• Board validation firmware.
• Testautomation.
• Manufacturing and EOL test solutions.
• Engineering utilities and instrumentation.
• Improved prototype workflows and repeatability.

Role Boundaries

• Mechanical Engineering: Owns mechanical architecture and major subsystem design.
• Electronics Engineering: Owns electronics architecture and major PCB development.
• Embedded Software: Owns production firmware and embedded software.
• Systems Engineering: Owns requirements, system architecture and verification strategy.
• Hardware Integration Engineering: Owns the technical execution of integrating these disciplines into validated, flight-ready hardware.

Success Measures

• Reduced time from design release to flight-ready prototype.
• Reduced dependency on senior specialists for prototype integration.
• Improved prototype quality and repeatability.
• Faster resolution of hardware issues.
• Better learning from flight testing.
• Increased ability to develop multiple products in parallel.

Vision

Initially, this role will be highly hands-on, personally building, integrating and debugging hardware alongside the engineering team. As TwentyFour grows, the role should evolve into the technical owner of prototype integration-establishing better integration methods, validation approaches and prototype workflows while remaining fundamentally an engineering position. Longer term, this capability could expand into a broader Prototype Integration function supporting multiple products, additional integration engineers and dedicated prototype infrastructure. The objective is not to create another management layer, but to build a scalable engineering capability that allows specialist teams to focus on designing excellent subsystems while Hardware Integration ensures those subsystems become reliable flying products.