Working Student – Flight Software Engineering

About the role

This role involves working hands-on with aircraft propulsion and power components to support the development of unmanned systems. You will assist the hardware engineering team by conducting bench characterisation, data analysis, and testing to evaluate performance metrics like thrust and endurance.

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 — 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
• UAS
• Electric propulsion
• Battery systems

Nice to have

• Test benches
• DAQ
• Measurement instrumentation
• Thermal behaviour
• Motor characterisation
• Propeller characterisation
• Robotics

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, or a comparable engineering field
• Must be a 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.