Senior Systems Integration Engineer

About the role

The Systems Engineering team at Stark is responsible for defining, analyzing, and validating the architecture of the Virtus Loitering Munition System. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will drive the development and maintenance of system architecture and requirement baselines while coordinating across hardware and software teams. You will ensure robust traceability and compliance to deliver safe and reliable defence technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define, decompose, and document system-level requirements down to subsystem and technical requirements.
• Maintain and evolve system engineering artefacts for Loitering Munition Systems across various configurations.
• Work closely with software and hardware teams to define interfaces, ensuring accurate allocation of requirements to system architecture elements.
• Assist in generating safety documentation, such as the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), Traceability Matrices, and System Hazard Analyses in compliance with MIL-STD-882E and IEC61508.
• Assist in the definition of IV&V (Integration, Verification, and Validation) processes for ground and flight testing, ensuring all customer requirements are verifiably met.
• Maintain technical documentation, including test protocols, subsystem design documents, and the overall system design baseline.
• Help refine our Data Models and Systems Engineering workflows to balance rapid development with rigorous documentation and traceability.

Required skills

• Systems Engineering
• Requirements management
• Traceability matrices
• V-model
• System Breakdown Structures
• Requirements decomposition
• 3D CAD
• CFD
• FEA
• MATLAB
• Simulink
• SysML
• Object-oriented programming
• C
• Python

Nice to have

• English
• German
• MIL-STD-882E
• IEC61508
• Unmanned aerial systems
• Loitering munitions
• Ardupilot
• PX4
• DroneCore

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Equivalent practical experience

Certifications

• INCOSE

About the Company

Stark is a defence technology company that equips NATO Allies and partners with next-generation autonomous defence platforms and advanced AI-driven software. The company combines elite engineering talent with agile technology and an AI-native operational culture to solve complex defence challenges.