Senior Requirements Engineer (all genders)

VÆRIDION; München; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch subsidy

Flexible schedule

Stock options

Mobility subsidy (Deutschlandticket/EV

Pension

Job summary

VÆRIDION is seeking a Senior Requirements Engineer to lead and mature requirements activities for the Microliner project. You will drive a robust, traceable framework across the lifecycle in collaboration with design, safety, verification, and configuration management teams.

You will guide requirement owners in applying effective methods, ensure complete traceability across variants, and support certification activities with V&V teams.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in requirements and systems engineering across full product lifecycle.
• Experience with aircraft requirements preferred; comparable safety-critical industry experience accepted.
• Experience with developing complex aircraft systems and safety-critical product requirements.
• Strong knowledge of capture, analysis, decomposition, allocation, validation and verification.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements engineering practices across the aircraft development lifecycle from needs through baselining and certification support.
• Help owners develop verifiable, implementation-appropriate requirements with QA guidance.
• Decompose and allocate requirements with bidirectional traceability across functions and configurations.
• Ensure alignment with architecture, interfaces, certification requirements and safety objectives.
• Facilitate elicitation, development and review to resolve ambiguities and gaps.
• Coordinate baselining and change control; assess impacts on architecture and safety.
• Define and improve requirements processes, templates, quality criteria and tool usage.
• Assess maturity, quality, traceability, applicability and change status with owners.
• Coach engineers in requirements development and management best practices.

Skills

Requirements engineering

Systems engineering

Aircraft certification

Traceability

DOORS

Polarion

Stakeholder management

English communication

Education

Master's degree

Tools

IBM DOORS

Siemens Polarion

Jama Connect

3DEXPERIENCE

Job description

Your Mission:

We are looking for a Senior Requirements Engineer (all genders) to join our Central Engineering team and lead requirements engineering practices for the Microliner aircraft.

You will establish and maintain a consistent, traceable, and certification-compliant requirements framework across the aircraft development lifecycle. Working closely with Overall Aircraft Design, Safety, Verification and Validation and Configuration Management, you will enable system and discipline owners to develop high-quality requirements by providing requirements engineering expertise, guidance and quality assurance.

As a senior member of Central Engineering, you will provide requirements engineering expertise across the organization, guide requirement owners in applying effective methods, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Lead requirements engineering practices across the aircraft development lifecycle, from stakeholder needs and requirements definition through baselining, change management, and certification support.

• Support aircraft, system, and discipline owners in developing and maintaining clear, consistent, implementation-appropriate, and verifiable requirements, providing expert guidance and quality assurance throughout the process.

• Support requirement owners in the decomposition and allocation of requirements, and maintain bidirectional traceability across aircraft functions, systems, and engineering disciplines, including requirements applicability and consistency across aircraft variants and configurations.

• Ensure alignment between requirements, aircraft architecture, interfaces, certification requirements, and safety objectives, and collaborate with the V&V team to establish complete and traceable verification coverage.

• Facilitate requirements elicitation, development, and review activities, and challenge and support requirement owners in resolving ambiguities, inconsistencies, gaps, and quality issues.

• Coordinate requirements baselining and change control, including the assessment of impacts on architecture, interfaces, safety, certification, and downstream requirements.

• Define and continuously improve requirements engineering processes, methods, templates, quality criteria, and tool usage.

• Assess and communicate requirements maturity, quality, traceability, applicability, and change status in collaboration with the respective requirement owners.

• Coach engineers and technical leads in requirements development and management best practices.

Your Profile:

• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.

• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in requirements and systems engineering, with demonstrated expertise in developing and managing complex requirements throughout the full product development lifecycle and across multiple levels of the requirements hierarchy. Experience with aircraft requirements is preferred; comparable experience from another safety-critical industry, such as automotive, is also considered.

• Previous experience with the development of novel aircraft systems, such as high-voltage electric propulsion systems, is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience working across a complete requirements hierarchy, from aircraft, vehicle, or product level through system and subsystem levels to hardware and software requirements, including decomposition, allocation, traceability, and management of requirements across organizational and technical boundaries.

• Strong knowledge of requirements capture, analysis, decomposition, allocation, validation, traceability, change control, and verification.

• Good understanding of systems and safety engineering for complex, safety-critical products, preferably in accordance with SAE ARP4754 and ARP4761. Previous experience with ED-12/DO-178 and ED-80/DO-254 is a strong plus.

• Experience with civil aircraft certification under EASA CS-23/25, FAA Part 23/25, or comparable aircraft certification; experience in an EASA Part 21J Design Organisation is highly desirable.

• Proficiency with requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Jama Connect, or equivalent; experience with Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE is a plus.

• Structured, analytical, and solution-oriented professional with strong ownership, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional European languages are an asset, combined with a strong motivation for aviation and electric aircraft technologies.

We recognize that women and other under-represented groups are often overlooked in our industry. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every listed qualification, we still encourage you to apply. Talent and potential can’t always be captured in a checklist.

Why us?

• Be part of an ambitious team determined to shape the future of aviation.

• We are an in-office company, but we value flexibility and trust employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work or adjusting hours to accommodate personal commitments.

• Subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership: your (mental) health is important for us.

• Enjoy a subsidized lunch with a 5€ company contribution per meal on office days.

• Become a part of our success with virtual stock options.

• Choose the option that suits your needs: either a free charging station for your electric car or a public transport job ticket as part of the Deutschlandticket.

• Lease a high-quality bicycle or e-bike through our JobRad program and benefit from tax advantages. Whether for your daily commute or personal use, enjoy more mobility and sustainability.

• Pension scheme to support your long-term financial security.

• Work in one of our offices in Munich or Delft. Enjoy the modern Balan Campus in Munich or work inside the aerospace ecosystem at TU Delft.

• Boost your professional as well as personal growth executing your own ideas and independent projects.

• Join our internal social events and retreats (e.g. cooking, game nights, sports).

VÆRIDION was founded in 2021 to transform regional air travel with the Microliner, a 100% electric commercial aircraft. By delivering the most energy-efficient aircraft, we are building the future where clean, safe, and affordable electric aviation seamlessly connects people and businesses. We’re bringing together the brightest minds in aerospace, automotive engineering, and business to disrupt the aviation industry.