Systems Qualification Engineer

Role Overview

• Drive product through the qualification process
• Develop and maintain the Qualification Data Pack core documents — qualification plans, test plans and procedures, requirements verification matrices, and qualification reports.
• Manage the four-stage qualification chain: Type Qualification (TQ), First Article Inspection (FAI), Lot Acceptance, and In-Service Surveillance, ensuring each stage produces its required artefact and signing authority.
• Define test campaigns and acceptance criteria, and coordinate environmental, mechanical, safety, and performance test programs to NATO AECTP, STANAG, and AOP standards.
• Build and maintain requirements traceability and verification cross-references, ensuring every requirement is verified
• Prepare gate-review entry packages, checklists, and RACI assignments, and act as the engineering focal point in formal reviews with Chief Engineers, Quality, Safety, and customer technical authorities.
• Manage re-qualification: assess change and failure triggers, classify them, and scope the re-qualification activity in line with the framework’s re-qualification rules.
• Support hazard and safety assessments at system level and ensure the qualification evidence underpins the system safety case and Statement of Qualification.
• Drive anomaly and non-conformance investigations through root-cause analysis and corrective action, feeding results back into the qualification record.
• Maintain configuration baselines and document control across the qualification lifecycle and support FAI and Production Readiness activities to transition a qualified design into production.
• Collaborate with energetics, propulsion, mechanical, electronics, and software discipline leads to integrate their qualification overlays into a coherent system-level program.

Requirements

• BSc. or MSc. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in qualification, verification and validation, or systems engineering of energetic, propulsion, missile, or aerospace systems in a defense or aerospace environment.
• Working knowledge of a gate-driven, V-model qualification lifecycle and the deliverables and entry/exit criteria associated with formal design and qualification reviews.
• Extensive experience with NATO and equivalent qualification standards — STANAG, AECTP, and AOP munition safety principles, or equivalent national frameworks.
• Understanding of the qualification chain: type qualification, first article inspection, lot acceptance, and in-service surveillance
• Solid grasp of TRL and MRL frameworks and how readiness levels gate progression through the lifecycle.
• Proven experience authoring qualification plans, test procedures, verification matrices, and qualification reports in a regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Experience with configuration management, requirements traceability, and document control on a complex hardware program.
• Strong documentation discipline and analytical mindset, with the ability to assemble and defend a complete evidence package under technical-authority review.
• Able to work hands-on across laboratory, integration, and test environments.
• Willingness to travel between production, R&D, and test sites in various locations.
• Fluency in English required; German, Dutch is a plus.