Working Student – Hardware Engineering (UAS Propulsion & Power)

About the role

You will join the hardware engineering team to work hands-on with propulsion and power components for unmanned systems. Your role involves supporting bench characterisation, setting up test rigs, and performing data analysis to help the team make informed design decisions. You will gain experience in how unmanned hardware is designed, tested, and pushed to its limits.

Responsibilities

• Support characterisation and bench testing of motors, propellers, batteries, and power components for our UAS platforms.
• Help set up test rigs and instrumentation, and capture clean, repeatable measurement data.
• Assist with component selection and trade-offs by turning test data into clear comparisons.
• Reduce and analyse test data in MATLAB and Python regarding efficiency, thrust, endurance, thermal and discharge behaviour.
• Visualise results so the engineering team can make decisions from them quickly.
• Keep test setups, measurements, and findings documented and traceable.

Required skills

• MATLAB
• Python
• Data analysis
• Electrical engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Aerospace engineering

Nice to have

• Test benches
• DAQ
• Measurement instrumentation
• Battery testing
• Thermal behaviour
• Motor characterisation
• Propeller characterisation
• Drones
• RC aircraft
• Robotics

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, or a comparable engineering field
• Working knowledge of MATLAB and Python for data analysis
• Interest in and some exposure to UAS, electric propulsion, or battery/power systems
• Citizen of a NATO member state

About the Company

STARK is a European defence technology company building the next generation of unmanned systems. They design, develop and manufacture software-defined, mass-scalable and cost-effective platforms for NATO operators.