Senior Electronics and Aviation Engineer

Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer
Location
Netherlands

Industry
Autonomous Systems | Aerospace | Advanced Engineering

Overview of the Role
We are working with an innovative technology company specialising in the development of advanced autonomous aerial systems for demanding and mission-critical operational environments.

Their engineering platforms are designed with a strong focus on reliability, resilience and operational performance. As the company continues to develop and enhance its technology, they are looking to appoint a highly experienced  Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer  to play a key role in the design, integration and validation of critical electrical and avionics systems.

This is a hands-on, end-to-end engineering position with responsibility spanning electrical architecture, hardware design, system integration, fault investigation, testing and validation. You will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure that complex autonomous systems remain reliable and predictable in challenging operational environments.

The Role
As the Senior Electrical & Avionics Engineer, you will take technical ownership of the electrical and avionics integrity of advanced autonomous platforms.

You will define and validate robust electrical architectures, power systems, avionics interfaces and embedded hardware, ensuring systems can safely operate during electrical disturbances, subsystem faults and demanding real-world operations.

The role covers the complete engineering lifecycle, from architecture and hardware design through to integration, troubleshooting, validation and controlled release.

Key Responsibilities

Define electrical architectures, power trees, load budgets, grounding strategies and critical-load priorities.

Design and develop power distribution, monitoring and protection systems.

Develop protection strategies against brownouts, overvoltage, reverse polarity, inrush current, short circuits and power interruptions.

Design schematics and multilayer PCBs for power, avionics, sensor and embedded-system applications.

Integrate batteries, battery-management systems, flight-control hardware, sensors, actuators, communications equipment, payloads and embedded computers.

Develop wiring harnesses, connector specifications, pinouts, shielding requirements and interface documentation.

Integrate systems using a range of embedded communication protocols and interfaces, including CAN, UART, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, USB and discrete I/O.

Improve overall system reliability through EMI/EMC mitigation, fault containment, component derating and power-integrity analysis.

Perform fault-injection testing and investigate complex electrical and system-level failures.

Conduct hardware bring‑up, structured troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis.

Define and execute laboratory, environmental, vibration, thermal and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Support system-level and operational validation activities, including field testing where required.

Maintain schematics, PCB documentation, bills of materials, hardware revisions and test procedures.

Develop test fixtures, manufacturing test processes and integration standards.

Support the transition of new hardware and systems into engineering and production environments.

Candidate Profile
We are looking for a highly motivated and technically capable engineer who enjoys solving complex problems and taking ownership of challenging engineering projects.

You should be analytical, hands‑on and comfortable investigating difficult electrical or system-level issues. The successful candidate will be able to work effectively across multiple engineering disciplines while maintaining a structured approach to validation, quality and continuous improvement.

This role may…