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About the Role

As Product Manager for Safety-Critical Systems, you will own the requirements engineering, roadmap, and delivery of systems that ensure safety in STARK's autonomous aerial and maritime platforms operating in high-stakes environments. This role is crucial for building trust and enabling the deployment of safe autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the requirements engineering, roadmap, and delivery for all safety-critical systems across STARK's UAV and USV platforms.
• Lead product-level contributions to Functional Hazard Analyses (FHA) and Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), translating identified risks into concrete product requirements.
• Serve as the product bridge between cybersecurity and safety engineering.
• Champion a "Digital Thread" for safety: end-to-end traceability from high-level system safety requirements through development, verification, and post-mission analysis.
• Define architectures that are mass-scalable and cost-effective, enabling STARK to deploy safe autonomous systems at scale.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, system safety engineers, certification leads, and executive stakeholders to drive design decisions and communicate risk clearly.
• Drive the company's "Digital-First Safety" posture, ensuring compliance with applicable standards (e.g. SIL-2/3, DO-178C, IEC 61508) while maintaining architectural resilience against emerging threats.
• Shape STARK's approach to safe agentic autonomy — ensuring increasingly autonomous behaviour remains deterministic and verifiable.

Requirements

• Degree (B.Sc. or M.Sc.) in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Proven track record as a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Systems Engineer delivering complex hardware/software systems under rigorous safety or regulatory standards.
• Deep working knowledge of safety standards and methodologies, e.g. IEC 61508, DO-178C, DO-254, ISO 26262, FHA, FTA.
• Experience taking a hardware/software product from concept through certification and into field deployment.
• Technical fluency in safety architecture concepts: redundancy topologies, dissimilar architectures, real-time operating systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional delivery activities and drive decisions in ambiguous, high-stakes technical environments.
• Eligible to obtain appropriate security clearance for defence work.

Skills

• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• MOSA
• FACE
• Cybersecurity
• Autonomous systems
• UAV/USV platforms

Education Level

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical discipline

About the Company

• STARK is a defence technology company revolutionising the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains.
• We design, develop, and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective.
• We are focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems.
• STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe, today.
• Due to the nature of our work in the defence sector, candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance required for this position.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.