Senior Power Systems Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential European aerospace organization at the forefront of advanced flight systems. Our client is building critical sovereign defence capability through cutting-edge propulsion and vehicle technology. This is a rare opportunity to join a highly talented, mission-driven team working on problems that directly impact European technological independence.

As a Senior Power Systems Engineer, you will own the electrical power architecture for high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring all generation, conversion, storage, distribution, and protection systems operate as a unified, resilient whole. This role offers exceptional autonomy and technical ownership in a fast-paced environment where your decisions shape program outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical power system architecture for high-speed flight vehicles, ensuring coherent integration of generation, conversion, storage, distribution, protection, and monitoring functions
• Define, manage, and maintain power system requirements with full traceability from mission needs through subsystem design, verification, and validation
• Develop power-system architectures and performance budgets covering voltage regulation, load management, efficiency, redundancy, thermal constraints, fault tolerance, and mission-critical availability
• Lead integration of power generation, battery systems, power electronics, energy storage, distribution networks, protection devices, and control systems across vehicle and payload architectures
• Conduct electrical system analyses including load-flow, transient response, fault analysis, protection coordination, power quality, thermal performance, and reliability assessments
• Define and support system-level modelling, simulation, laboratory testing, environmental qualification, and vehicle integration activities using data-driven analysis
• Produce critical engineering artefacts including specifications, electrical schematics, interface control documents, analysis reports, verification plans, and design review material
• Apply systems engineering and MBSE principles to ensure traceability between requirements, architectures, analyses, verification activities, and flight-test outcomes
• Identify and mitigate system-level risks related to power availability, thermal loading, EMC performance, reliability, safety, integration complexity, and operational resilience
• Serve as technical authority on electrical power systems, collaborating with avionics, controls, software, thermal, mechanical, EMC, and systems engineering teams

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex electrical power systems in aerospace, defence, automotive, space, or other mission-critical environments
• Strong background in electrical system architecture, requirements management, systems integration, verification, and validation across the full engineering lifecycle
• Deep understanding of electrical power generation, power conversion, battery systems, energy storage, power distribution, protection systems, and power electronics
• Proven experience with electrical analysis: load-flow studies, transient response, fault analysis, protection coordination, power quality, thermal performance, and reliability assessments
• Track record designing and integrating high-performance electrical power systems within highly constrained environments where weight, volume, efficiency, and thermal management are critical
• Familiarity with systems engineering and MBSE approaches for managing complexity, interfaces, traceability, and technical risk
• Experience supporting major design reviews, qualification campaigns, integration programmes, and transition from concept through detailed design and verification
• Technical credibility across multiple engineering disciplines with ability to influence decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive technical direction
• Comfort operating in ambitious, fast-paced environments where priorities evolve quickly and engineering decisions have significant programme impact
• Must be an EU/NATO/German citizen and eligible for German Security Clearance due to the nature of the work

How We Work with You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your background and conduct an initial screening to understand your experience and motivations. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. You'll be guided through each stage of the process by our recruiters, who maintain close communication with the hiring organization.

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Location and Work Arrangement

This position is based in Munich, Germany. The role requires on-site presence due to the nature of the work, security requirements, and the collaborative engineering environment.

Equal Opportunity

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