About the Role
You'll be the technical glue holding together a fast-moving hardware and payload integration environment, turning parallel engineering workstreams into one working system. You will act as a direct technical counterpart to the integration lead, bringing process discipline and hands-on execution to a function that's still being built.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day technical integration across hardware, payload, and embedded subsystems, working directly with engineering teams to resolve interface conflicts.
- Apply discipline across integration activities, maintaining traceability between requirements, design, and verification.
- Translate requirements and constraints between hardware, software, payload, and systems engineering teams, closing ambiguity at the interfaces.
- Identify and resolve technical dependencies across teams before they become integration blockers.
- Introduce structure, documentation, and change control into an integration function without freezing program speed.
- Work hands-on with engineers on the test floor and at the bench to solve problems in person.
- Act as a technical sparring partner to the integration lead, sharing context and pressure-testing decisions.
- Shape the build-out of the wider integration team, contributing to role definition and technical interviewing.
- Report integration status, risks, and blockers in terms program leadership can act on.
Requirements
- Proven system integration experience in hardware, payload, embedded, defence, or aviation environments.
- Technical depth strong enough to work as a peer with engineers.
- Track record owning technical dependencies and interfaces across multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously.
- Background in either systems/hardware engineering or technical program management, with hands-on integration exposure.
- Experience on complex, multi-team technical programs, defence, aerospace, automotive, or comparably regulated sectors.
- A pragmatic, low-ego, execution-first operating style.
- Fluent German and professional English.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance required for this position.
Skills
- System integration
- Hardware integration
- Payload integration
- Embedded subsystems integration
- Requirements traceability
- Design traceability
- Verification
- Technical dependencies management
- Interface management
- Structure implementation
- Documentation
- Change control
- Team building
- Technical interviewing
- Risk reporting
- Blocker reporting
- German language proficiency
- English language proficiency
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
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.
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.
