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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Programme Manager - Sensing Systems - **Company:** Onodrim Industries - **Location:** München, Germany - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Sharing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Software Requirements Analysis, Test Data, Data Processing - **Published:** November 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a70faf2f8c1c2f6a ## About the Role * A degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, physics, geophysics, acoustics, digital signal processing or a closely related discipline. * 5+ years in sensing or sensor systems, including at least 3 years hands-on as an engineer - sensor hardware, signal processing, data acquisition, systems or test - before moving into programme or product responsibility. * At least 2 years running programmes or projects with real ownership: budget, schedule, external partners and a customer who signs off. * Working knowledge of how physical signals become detections: sensor physics and placement, signal conditioning, digital signal processing, detection and classification, and the environmental and noise effects that limit each modality. * Experience with at least one of acoustic, seismic, vibration or similar mechanical-waveform sensing, and the curiosity to pick up others. * Experience with field deployments or operational testing of sensors, ideally with military, border or critical-infrastructure users. * Comfort managing external engineering partners - companies, institutes, subcontractors - and holding them to commitments. * Structured, numbers-driven working style: risk registers, test plans and status reports that someone can act on. * Clear, direct communication in English, written and spoken, with engineers, partners and users alike. * Willingness to travel extensively across Europe - partner sites, field deployments, portfolio companies. * Right to work in the UK, Switzerland or the EU, and eligibility for a national security clearance in at least one of our operating countries. Nice to have * We operate our business in English; knowledge of a European language other than English is beneficial. * Military service in a surveillance, reconnaissance, engineer or EW role, or time as a user of unattended ground sensors or perimeter-security systems. * An existing national security clearance. * Experience with other sensing modalities - electro-optical/infrared, magnetic, RF or chemical - and with fusing several of them. * Machine-learning experience on sensor data: detection, classification and tracking models, including running them on low-power edge hardware. * Familiarity with low-power embedded systems, energy harvesting and long-duration unattended deployments. * Experience integrating sensors into command-and-control or situational-awareness tools. * Experience on the supplier side of a defence or security procurement - proposal, qualification, framework contracts. * Exposure to export control (EU dual-use, ITAR/EAR) and classified-programme handling. * Experience in a start-up or small team where you did whatever the programme needed. ## Description * Run the engagement. Own scope, plan, budget, risk register and schedule for the engagement you're assigned; report status weekly in numbers, escalate early, and execute well to completion. * Write the requirement. Turn a partner's or customer's need into a concept of operations, a system requirement (what to detect, at what range, in what environment, with what false-alarm rate, at what cost and power budget) and acceptance criteria that engineers can build to and users can test against. * Manage the partner. Be the day-to-day counterpart for the partner company, institute or portfolio company: statements of work, milestones, data sharing, IP and commercial terms in coordination with our deal and legal teams; resolve conflicts before they stall the work. * Judge the engineering. Chair design reviews, read test data, challenge sensor, processing and deployment choices, and decide when the system is good enough to proceed. * Run the trials. Plan and execute lab tests, field deployments and user demonstrations in realistic terrain, weather and background-noise conditions, and turn the results into successful decisions. * Coordinate our engineers. Bring R&D's software and hardware engineers onto the engagement with clear work packages, and keep their work and the partner's integrated. * Support the deal team. Contribute the sensing-domain view to technical diligence of acquisition targets and partnerships: what they have built, how well it detects, and what it would take to finish and industrialise. * Plan the hand-off. Design the engagement so its outputs can be industrialised and owned by a manufacturer in the portfolio - documentation, bill of materials, test and qualification - and work with their teams and our Forward Deployed Operators to make it stick. * Keep it compliant. Manage test-site approvals, data handling, export control and security classification on your engagement. * Feed the strategy. Bring what you learn - technology, partners, users, competitors - back to the Head of Research & Development to shape what we take on next.