Senior Electronics Engineer

About the role

You will own the electrical subsystem architecture of the Gambit platform, ranging from high-voltage propulsion distribution to precision sensor power rails and flight computer avionics. This role involves building the nervous system and power backbone that ensures aircraft stability and responsiveness under extreme flight loads and environmental stress.

Responsibilities

• Architect power distribution boards (PDB), avionics motherboards, sensor interface cards, and payload power supplies.
• Design multi-layer, high-density PCBs adhering to strict mass, thermal, and IPC-2221/IPC-A-610 standards.
• Own component selection, derating calculations, and power tree efficiency optimizations.
• Lead electrical integration, EMC/EMI shielding strategy, and ground-loop elimination across high-current powertrain and sensitive RF avionics.
• Define and document electrical ICDs interfacing powertrain, compute, datalink, and payload.
• Mentor junior and mid-level electrical engineers through design reviews and lab bring-up.

Required skills

• Hardware development
• Electronics design
• PCB layout
• Altium Designer
• KiCad
• SMPS
• Battery management
• High-current switching
• Transient suppression
• Oscilloscopes
• English

Qualifications

• Citizen of a NATO member state
• Eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance

About the Company

Stark is a European defence technology company building the next generation of unmanned systems, autonomous defence platforms, and advanced AI-driven software. They focus on hardware-level security and sub-millisecond reaction times for airborne computing architectures.