Description
Job Description
As Product Manager (Air) – Perception & Sensor Fusion, you will define what our uncrewed combat aerial vehicle sees, understands and shares. You will own the product vision and roadmap for the full perception software stack, spanning electro-optical and electromagnetic sensor processing, data fusion from single sensors to collaborative multi-aircraft operations, the common operating picture, and perception-based navigation in GNSS-denied environments.
Working with operational users, software and AI engineers, systems engineers and flight test teams, you will translate demanding mission needs into clear requirements, measurable performance targets and a prioritised roadmap, and you will see your decisions travel from whiteboard to flight test.
By giving aircraft and operators a reliable, trustworthy picture of the battlespace, you will shape a core capability of a next-generation European uncrewed combat aircraft and directly strengthen the ability of European armed forces to deter and defend, with humans firmly in control.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for airborne perception, covering EO/IR and RF sensor processing, multi-level data fusion, situational awareness and perception-aided navigation
- Translate operational needs, mission threads and customer requirements into product requirements, measurable KPIs and acceptance criteria that engineering and flight test can verify
- Work closely with perception, fusion, autonomy and navigation engineers to resolve architecture-level trade-offs across performance, latency, bandwidth, SWaP and schedule
- Define how perception outputs and the common operating picture serve mission autonomy, collaborative operations and the human operator
- Partner with systems engineering, flight test and safety teams to shape test and evidence strategies
- Shape the perception data strategy with data and ML infrastructure teams
- Work directly with customers, operational users and partners to gather feedback and run demonstrations
Requirements
- Have shipped sensing, perception or data fusion capabilities as a product manager, technical product owner or systems architect, ideally in aerospace, defence, autonomous vehicles or robotics
- Understand sensor data processing (EO/IR and/or RF, radar, ESM), multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusion in depth
- Have taken a complex capability from requirements through integration and test into the field or into flight
- Turn ambiguous operational or customer needs into structured requirements, metrics and a prioritised roadmap
- Communicate clearly and credibly with engineers, programme leaders, customers and senior military stakeholders
- Are eligible to obtain national security clearance and can travel to test sites, customers and partners
Nice to Have
- Have worked on collaborative or distributed fusion across multiple platforms
- Understand perception-aided navigation
- Know military aviation, ISR or electronic warfare
- Understand tactical data links, C2 interfaces and common operating picture concepts
- Have worked within airworthiness, safety and certification processes for airborne software
- Have hands-on experience of ML-based perception, simulation or synthetic data for training and validation
- Have worked with European defence customers and procurement agencies
Benefits
- Competitive salary and VSOP options
- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work