Head of Electronics & Software (Aerospace)

Location: Munich, Germany; regular face-to-face engagement across European sites and additional travel for leadership, recruitment, reviews, audits, and project support.

Company

Builds spacecraft for humanity and develops product capabilities across complex aerospace engineering programmes.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the multidisciplinary Electronics & Software organisation across avionics, communications, electrical power, flight software, GNC, EWIS, harness engineering, and future electronics and software programmes.
• Own workforce planning, recruitment, retention, succession planning, organisational design, promotions, compensation planning, and functional capability development.
• Develop managers, Project Leads, discipline Leads, Principal Engineers, and senior technical staff through objectives, mentoring, coaching, career paths, and performance management.
• Own engineering practices, standards, tools, compliance readiness, and continuous improvement across electronics, software, GNC, and electrical/harness engineering.
• Support project leadership with resource planning, technical guidance, engineering reviews, capability-gap management, risk resolution, and cross-project prioritisation.
• Own the functional budget and forecast, including headcount, tools, licences, shared simulation and test capability, training, development, and team travel.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on engineering experience in at least one of avionics, electronics, embedded systems, flight software, GNC, or electrical systems, with sufficient breadth across several disciplines.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams in a complex product environment and operating within a matrix organisation across multiple projects or programmes.
• Proven formal line-management experience, including developing managers and technical leaders.
• Experience hiring, developing, and building engineering organisations, including organisational design, workforce planning, and capacity planning.
• Experience creating or improving engineering processes, tools, standards, and ways of working.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, communication, influencing, and constructive challenge skills.
• Pragmatic experience with engineering quality, assurance, and compliance, including relevant EN9100 practices.
• Ability to empower technical owners, maintain clear accountability across functional and project organisations, and remain technically engaged.

Nice to have

• Experience in spacecraft, launch vehicles, aerospace, defence, aviation, robotics, or another complex safety-critical engineering environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile environment focused on fast decisions while maintaining clear goals and robust systems.
• Open and collaborative culture with transparency around risks and obstacles.
• Emphasis on humility, low ego, extreme ownership, engineering first principles, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Relocation assistance is provided for candidates willing to relocate, including visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Employment offers are conditional on a background check subject to the country, role, and project.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV for immediate consideration.
• Successful offers may require completion of a background check through Zinc Work Limited.