Electronics Engineer

Electronics Engineer

Wingcopter

Weiterstadt, Germany

Your mission

Join our engineering team to help develop next-generation drone technology through the design and sustainment of advanced electronic hardware.

This position requires on-site collaboration, testing, and integration work and therefore cannot be performed fully remotely.

• Design, develop, validate, and sustain electronic hardware for drone platforms and subsystems.
• Create schematics, select components, and support PCB design with focus on performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.
• Perform hardware testing, debugging, root cause analysis, and design verification.
• Support prototyping, product validation, manufacturing introduction, and production release.
• Investigate field issues, implement design improvements, and manage component lifecycle and obsolescence.
• Collaborate with firmware, software, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure successful product development and integration.
• Maintain technical documentation and support engineering change management (ECR/ECO) and configuration control processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Your profile

• Diploma or Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering or Mechatronics.
• Min. 8 years experience in the field of electrical HW development, embedded systems, preferably in aerospace or automotive.
• Expertise in complex PCBA design (incl. component selection), concept, schematic, layout and manufacturing (prototypes).
• EMI compliant design expertise.
• Specialized in one of the following fields: Knowledge of signal processing and interfaces (UART, CAN, SPI, I²C, Ethernet…); Knowledge of wireless interfaces (LTE, GNSS etc); Knowledge of microcontrollers (esp. ARM Cortex).
• Expert in trouble shooting and design analysis and optimizations.
• Experience with EDA programs (preferred: Altium).
• Experience with Airborne (or Automotive) Electronic Hardware development standards, e.g. aviation regulations and standards DO-254 and DO-160.
• Fluent in English; German language skills are a plus.
• Experience with Git, embedded programming (in C/C++, Python) is a plus.

What you bring as a perfect candidate

• You thrive in collaborative environments and value collective success.
• You approach challenges with a positive mindset and a proactive attitude.
• You believe technology has the power to improve society and drive positive change for the future.