Team Lead System Electronics (m/f/d)

Location: Gilching, Bavaria, Germany; primarily on-site with the option to work remotely one flexible day per week.

Company

European deep-tech company developing integrated hardware, software, and AI-powered unmanned systems for mission-critical operations across air, land, and maritime domains.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of electronics engineers and technicians.
• Drive the architecture, design, validation, and continuous improvement of electronic systems, PCBs, wiring concepts, and power electronics for UAV platforms.
• Own electronics development from prototyping through industrialization, series production, and production support.
• Coordinate integration projects with mechanical engineering, embedded software, system integration, flight test, manufacturing, supply chain, and production teams.
• Support design reviews, technical decisions, root-cause analyses, and troubleshooting of complex electronics issues.
• Work with suppliers, EMS partners, and manufacturing stakeholders to improve quality, manufacturability, delivery, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, or a comparable technical discipline.
• 10 years of experience in electronics development, including PCB design, circuit development, and hardware validation.
• Experience with Altium Designer, Altium365, Jira, and EPlan.
• Proven experience leading engineering projects, technical teams, or multidisciplinary development activities.
• Strong knowledge of analog and digital electronics, power electronics, embedded hardware, and system-level design.
• Experience across prototyping, testing, industrialization, and production support.
• Structured and pragmatic problem-solving approach with ownership of technical decisions.
• Natural communication in English is required. German language skills are considered a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace, UAV, automotive, robotics, or other safety-critical products.
• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, customer-focused environment with an emphasis on technical expertise, innovation, and technological excellence.
• Trust-based flexible working hours and support for work-life balance.
• Company pension scheme, subsidized fitness membership, bike leasing, corporate discounts, sponsored lunch budget, and employee events.
• Company shuttle service from Laim in Munich to the Gilching location and back.
• Inclusive workplace that actively promotes diversity and equal participation.

Hiring process

• The application has already been submitted successfully; duplicate submissions are not accepted.