Mission Systems Engineer - Remote Aviation Safety

Reliable Robotics; España; Remote; EUR 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to join our Systems team, reporting to the Systems & Safety Manager. The role focuses on architecting safety-critical flight systems and ensuring compliance with certification requirements.

You will collaborate across disciplines to enable unmanned aircraft operations, participate in certification planning, and support development from prototype through deployment, with optional remote work and up to 10% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline.
• Advanced Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline is preferred.
• Experience in designing and testing complex safety-critical aerospace systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop prototypes and certifiable safety-critical flight systems in a dynamic start-up.
• Define mission-related operation aspects from a pilot’s perspective.
• Plan type certification and operational approval strategies.
• Create training and support documents for deploying autonomous systems.
• Assess system architecture and trade-offs for performance, risk and effort.
• Capture system requirements for avionics hardware and software development.
• Conduct operational safety assessments for experiments and production missions.
• Contribute to vehicle-level function design, development, testing and validation.
• Collaborate across Reliable Robotics domains on diverse system engineering tasks.

Skills

Systems engineering

Risk assessment

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Creative problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related

Advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related

Tools

ARP4754A/ARP4761

DO-254/DO-178C

Job description

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to join our Systems team, reporting to the Systems & Safety Manager. The role focuses on architecting safety-critical flight systems and ensuring compliance with certification requirements.

You will collaborate across disciplines to enable unmanned aircraft operations, participate in certification planning, and support development from prototype through deployment, with optional remote work and up to 10% travel.