Description
Job Overview
As a Systems Engineer for our Armament Control System (ACS), you will take end-to-end technical responsibility for a safety-critical system: hardware, software, testing, qualification and safety.
Key Responsibilities
- Take technical responsibility for the full ACS lifecycle, from concept and architecture through hardware and software development, integration and test, to qualification and safety release.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations such as MIL-STD-1760, ARP-4754A, or MIL-STD-882.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and systems integration, to ensure a cohesive and robust system design.
- Author and coordinate ACS specifications for suppliers and interfaces for other systems, as well as description documents and user manuals.
- Act as the technical point of contact in supplier management, ensuring the right delivery of the ACS items.
- Define, model, test and integrate the ACS software, using Matlab Simulink and Speedgoat target machines.
Requirements
- Have strong background and experience in the development of complex, safety-critical systems within the aerospace or defence industry.
- Have experience in developing and managing system specifications and interface control documents.
- Proficiency with systems engineering tools for requirements management, modelling, and simulation, such as Jama, Gitlab, Simulink.
- Have applied airworthiness and safety standards, for example ARP4754A, MIL-STD-882 or MIL-STD-1760.
- Communicate technical reasoning clearly in written and spoken English, to customers and suppliers as well as engineering colleagues.
- Hold, or are willing and able to obtain, an extended German security clearance (erweiterte Sicherheitsüberprüfung, Ü2 or Ü3).
Nice to Have
- Have integrated stores or weapons onto an airborne platform, whether crewed or uncrewed.
- Have a software development experience in aeronautical and military embedded systems (on Real-Time Operating Systems, applying DO-178C standard, with MIL-STD-1553 sequencing, etc.).
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: regular 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