Senior Electronic Warfare Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential European aerospace and defense organization that is developing critical sovereign capabilities. Our client is building a small, elite engineering team in Munich to deliver advanced electronic warfare systems that will directly contribute to European technological independence and security.

This is a senior systems engineering position with significant technical ownership and strategic impact. You will architect and integrate complex RF and mission systems in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment where your decisions shape operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture for electronic warfare capabilities, ensuring electronic support (ES), electronic attack (EA), and electronic protection (EP) functions operate as a coherent, mission-effective system
• Define, maintain, and manage EW system requirements with full traceability from operational needs through architecture, subsystem allocation, verification, and validation
• Lead development of system architectures, performance budgets, interface definitions, and mission integrations across airborne platforms and payloads
• Conduct threat, signal, and electromagnetic environment analyses to assess system effectiveness against representative adversary capabilities and operational conditions
• Lead integration of RF sensors, receivers, transmitters, antenna systems, signal processing functions, mission computers, and platform interfaces
• Define and oversee system-level modeling, simulation, laboratory testing, ground trials, and flight trials using evidence-based analysis to drive design improvements and risk reduction
• Produce and maintain critical systems engineering artifacts including system specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), verification strategies, test plans, and design review materials
• Apply model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles to ensure traceability between requirements, architectures, analyses, verification activities, and operational outcomes
• Identify and mitigate system-level risks around electromagnetic performance, interoperability, survivability, cybersecurity, verification, and platform integration
• Serve as technical authority for EW system engineering, working across RF, software, hardware, mission systems, cybersecurity, safety, and platform engineering disciplines

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex Electronic Warfare, RF, mission systems, avionics, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical systems
• Strong background in systems architecture, requirements development, requirements decomposition, verification, and validation throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Deep understanding of Electronic Warfare concepts including electronic support (ES), electronic attack (EA), electronic protection (EP), threat systems, and electromagnetic spectrum operations
• Experience integrating RF sensors, receivers, transmitters, antennas, signal processing systems, and mission computers into operational platforms
• Strong knowledge of electromagnetic environments, system performance analysis, modeling, simulation, and test methodologies
• Familiarity with MBSE approaches and capability to apply systems engineering rigor to complex, multidisciplinary defense programs
• Experience supporting major design reviews, platform integration activities, flight trials, qualification programs, and operational capability development
• Technically credible across multiple disciplines with ability to influence decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive technical direction confidently
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, high-accountability environments where ambiguity is high and execution speed matters
• Motivated by solving nationally significant defense challenges and building capabilities that contribute to European security and technological independence
• Security requirement: Must be an EU/NATO/German citizen and eligible for security clearance due to the nature of the work

How We Work With You

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• Our recruiting team conducts an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements
• We prepare and submit your profile to our client on your behalf
• We coordinate all interview stages and provide guidance throughout the process
• Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth, professional process

Location and Employment Details

Location: Munich, Germany

Employment Type: Full-time

Our client offers competitive compensation aligned to responsibility and impact, equity participation, high autonomy, and the opportunity to work on one of Europe's most consequential defense challenges with direct impact on sovereign capability.

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