Hardware Quality Engineer

Twentyfour GmbH
München, Germany
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Shift work
Job source

Tech stack

Adobe InDesign Failure Mode Effects Analysis Formal Verification Hardware Design Hardware Interface Design Reliability Engineering

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on Hardware Quality Engineer to strengthen the quality and maturity of our mechanical and electrical hardware development. This is not a production-quality or QMS role, it’s an engineering-focused quality position embedded within Hardware: someone who walks into the workshop and asks “why did this bracket crack?” rather than scheduling a meeting about a checklist. This is a role for a strong engineer in one discipline who can identify hardware risks early, drive root-cause investigations, and make sure hardware is mature before formal testing and release. The day-to-day

  • Design assurance: support hardware design assurance from prototype through release
  • Technical review: review requirements, interfaces, design outputs, and technical evidence for completeness and robustness
  • Risk management: facilitate DFMEAs and ensure key risks are reflected in design controls and verification
  • Cross-domain integration: focus on hardware interfaces such as mechanical/electrical integration, connectors, grounding, and thermal interfaces
  • Root-cause investigation: coordinate structured root-cause investigations for hardware and integration failures, tracking corrective actions
  • Test readiness: work with Test and Flight Test to ensure hardware is ready for formal verification

Requirements

  • Experience: you bring 5+ years of experience in hardware development, hardware quality, product assurance, or reliability engineering
  • Technical depth: you have strong technical depth in either mechanical or electrical/electronic hardware
  • System understanding: you have a broad understanding of complex electro-mechanical products
  • Methodology: you’re experienced with design reviews, DFMEA, root-cause analysis, and engineering change control
  • Working style: you’re pragmatic and hands-on, comfortable working directly with prototypes, assemblies, and failed hardware
  • Education: you hold a degree in mechanical, electrical, electronics, mechatronics, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline

Nice to haves

  • Domain background: experience in UAVs, aerospace, defense, robotics, or automotive electronics
  • Evidence-based challenge: you can constructively challenge engineering decisions based on evidence, not hierarchy
  • High-reliability products: experience with medical devices, industrial automation, or other high-reliability electro-mechanical products

Benefits & conditions

  • Real impact & ownership: Shape high-tech defense systems and take responsibility from day one.
  • Mission-driven environment: Work on technologies that matter for European security and sovereignty.
  • Competitive package: Competitive salary, EGYM Wellpass, corporate benefits, and equity options aligned with role and level.
  • Deep tech environment: Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge drone technology and real operational use cases.
  • Grow fast: Steep learning curve for juniors, strategic influence and leadership opportunities for seniors.
  • Startup mindset meets defence innovation: flat hierarchies, fast decisions, and space for your ideas.
  • Flexibility: Flexible hours, remote options, and relocation support.
  • Strong team: International, driven colleagues and a culture built on exchange, trust, and shared success.

About the company

Twentyfour Industries is committed to building a fair, inclusive, and high-performance workplace where people from all backgrounds can contribute and thrive. Our team brings together individuals with different perspectives, experiences, and skills to shape the future of European security and technology.

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