Senior Ground Test Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Ground Test Engineer, you will lead the expansion of physical testing capabilities and the development of internal workshop infrastructure. You will manage ground testing pipelines for environmental, vibration, shock, and systems integration, while coordinating with external partners to ensure compliance with military standards. This role requires high autonomy in procuring equipment and executing test campaigns to validate system performance.

Responsibilities

• Build up and equip our internal ground test workshop, identifying hardware needs, managing procurement for test tools, and establishing our in-house pre-compliance testing environment.
• Expand testing capabilities beyond the initial E3 campaign to introduce environmental certification pipelines, including climate and environmental mechanical conditions.
• Execute standard integration ground testing on new and existing systems to validate and prove system behavior against rigorous technical requirements.
• Coordinate test campaigns with external partners and commercial test facilities, managing logistics, resource readiness, and scheduling for formal certifications.
• Perform hands-on troubleshooting and root-cause analysis during test execution, implementing immediate on-the-spot fixes or documenting detailed findings to drive design improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics design, systems engineering, and flight test teams to transform test data into actionable requirements for next-generation platforms.
• Author comprehensive test documentation, including Test Requests (TRQs), procedural step-by-step instructions, test matrices, and formal data recording sheets.
• Ensure strict adherence to safety protocols, regulatory requirements, and military standard testing methodologies throughout all test campaigns.

Required skills

• Ground testing
• Hardware integration
• Military standards
• Aerospace standards
• STANAG 4370
• MIL-STD-810
• Laboratory equipment
• Data acquisition systems
• Troubleshooting
• English

Nice to have

• Loitering munitions
• UAS
• Python
• MATLAB
• Nominal
• STANAG 4866
• MIL-STD-461
• AECTP-100
• DO-160
• German

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on ground testing, qualification, or hardware integration experience within the defense, aerospace, or UAV sectors
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance

About the Company

Stark is a premier defence technology company that develops AI-driven autonomous defence platforms and software for NATO Allies and partners. The company focuses on relentless innovation and agile technology to solve complex defence challenges.