Hardware Quality Engineer
MunichFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Hands-on hardware quality role embedded within Hardware, focusing on identifying hardware risks early, driving root-cause investigations, and ensuring hardware maturity before formal testing and release.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in hardware development, hardware quality, product assurance, or reliability engineering
- strong technical depth in either mechanical or electrical/electronic hardware
- broad understanding of complex electro-mechanical products
- experience with design reviews, DFMEA, root-cause analysis, and engineering change control
- pragmatic and hands-on, comfortable working directly with prototypes, assemblies, and failed hardware
- degree in mechanical, electrical, electronics, mechatronics, aerospace engineering, or related discipline
Skills
Required:Hardware design assuranceDFMEARoot-cause analysis
Benefits
- 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
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Twentyfour Industries
European Drones – at scale
Twentyfour Industries designs, manufactures, and deploys drones for European and allied partners - cost-effectively, at scale, and with end-to-end operational support.
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