UAV Prototyping Engineer (all genders)

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  "id": "2636758",
  "name": "UAV Prototyping Engineer (all genders)",
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  "schedule": "full-time",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-18T11:13:16+00:00",
  "seniority": "entry-level",
  "department": "R&D / Hardware",
  "occupation": "aeronautic_and_avionic_engineering",
  "subcompany": "STARK R&D GmbH",
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    {
      "name": "About Us",
      "value": "<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\"https://stark-defence.com/en\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline;\">STARK</span></a><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"> is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high performance unmanned aerial and terrestrial systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments.</span></p><br><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">We’re focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems—not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe—today.</span></p>"
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      "name": "Your mission",
      "value": "<span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Take ideas from napkin sketches to flying hardware, faster than anyone thinks is reasonable from traditional legacy aerospace companies. This isn't a role for people who wait for requirements documents or detailed instructions; it's for engineers who are already halfway through a solution before the problem has been fully explained. We seek creative engineers that like to build their designs and have a strong theoretical engineering foundation.</span>"
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      "name": "Responsibilities",
      "value": "<ul style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;\"><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Physically build UAV prototypes end-to-end — from design concept and material selection through to first flight, take full ownership through the entire engineering design cycles till a working prototype is achieved.</span></p></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Design and fabricate airframe structures, avionic stacks, mechanisms, ground support equipment, and integration. Whatever the project demands with a can do attitude.</span></p></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Work directly with various engineering groups that are multidisciplinary.</span></p></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Support flight test campaigns in the field — launches, recoveries, rapid turnaround repairs, and the occasional \"why is this vibrating?\" debrief, you know the fun stuff.</span></p></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Barlow, sans-serif;color:#1d1c1d;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\">Apply engineering rigour to informal knowledge: if you learned it in a club field or a shed, document it, systematise it, and make it repeatable. Learn from your mistakes and update your designs.</span></p></li></ul>"
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