Senior Payload Integration Engineer - UGV Platforms (m/f/d)

Meyandy LLC; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 103,603 - 138,138; Full time

Job summary

Quantum-Systems GmbH, München, is seeking a Senior Payload Integration Engineer to own the payload integration across UGV platforms. You’ll manage electrical, electronic, and mechanical integration for diverse payloads, ensuring scalable interfaces and end-to-end E/E system coherence.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience, collaboration with suppliers, and proficiency with CAN and automotive Ethernet.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on payload integration experience.
• Experience defining and owning multi-domain integration architecture.
• Ability to work with suppliers and manufacturing teams.
• Familiarity with interface control documents and test workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the electrical, electronic and mechanical integration concept across UGV payloads.
• Integrate payloads into vehicle power, network, compute, and control architectures.
• Plan and execute bring-up, commissioning and validation on prototypes and demonstrators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and document interfaces, tests, and lessons learned.

Skills

Payload integration

Electrical engineering

Mechanical integration

CAN

Automotive Ethernet

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical / Mechatronics / Mechanical / Robotics / vehicle systems)

Job description

Join Quantum-Systems and help bring autonomous ground systems into real-world operations. As Senior Payload Integration Engineer, you will own the payload integration across our UGV platforms: the electrical, electronic, and mechanical integration of a wide range of mission payloads into our own Mandrill UGV and partner vehicle platforms. Your goal is a payload-agnostic platform with scalable, reusable interfaces instead of one-off solutions, so we can adapt quickly to evolving mission needs without redesigning the vehicle for every new configuration. This is a senior individual contributor role with real ownership. You drive the integration architecture end to end, from interface definition through bring-up and commissioning to the point where the complete E/E system is proven to work on the vehicle. You will work at the intersection of vehicle hardware, autonomy and MOSAIC orchestration software, mechanical engineering, suppliers, and manufacturing.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

Payload Integration Architecture and Ownership Define and own the electrical, electronic, and mechanical integration concept for various payloads across our UGV platforms, ensuring scalable and reusable interfaces instead of one-off solutions. Design, specify, and validate payload interfaces: power supply, signal routing, communication interfaces, connectors, mounting concepts, cooling, grounding and shielding, and serviceability. Enable a payload-flexible vehicle platform that supports a wide range of customer-specific payloads (power profiles, environmental conditions, data interfaces) without major redesigns for every new configuration.

Electrical, Electronic and mechanical Integration

Integrate payloads into the vehicle power, network, compute, and control architectures: schematics, harnessing, connectors, fusing, diagnostics, and interface documentation. Work with vehicle communication buses (CAN, automotive Ethernet) to bring payload data and control interfaces cleanly into the vehicle architecture. Own the health of the complete E/E system: systematic cross-domain troubleshooting across payload, harness, power, compute, and software. Drive payload mounting together with internal vehicle teams and external suppliers: brackets, packaging, accessibility, vibration robustness, environmental protection, maintainability, and manufacturability.

Bring-up, Commissioning and Validation

Plan and execute payload bring-up and commissioning on vehicle prototypes and demonstrators: mechanical fitment, electrical integration, software provisioning (flashing, configuration, diagnostics), troubleshooting, and validation up to full system commissioning where the complete E/E system is proven to work. Define acceptance criteria, build and run system-level test setups, automate recurring integration and regression tests with scripts and test tooling, and support field testing. Translate integration findings into design improvements for vehicle and payload interfaces, and feed validated test workflows into our CI and test infrastructure together with the HW integration and SW Factory teams. Work directly with payload suppliers: clarify requirements, review technical documentation, align interface specifications, and drive issue resolution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Documentation

Create clear interface control documents, integration guides, test reports, lessons learned, and reusable standards for future payload integrations. Actively support build-ups, rework, payload installation, and vehicle-level commissioning in the workshop during prototype and customer-specific integration phases.

What you bring to the team:

Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, vehicle systems, or a comparable technical field. 5+ years of hands-on ex… Senior Payload Integration Engineer - UGV Platforms (m/f/d) — Quantum-Systems GmbH, München.