Airworthiness Engineer

Description
Have you ever found joy in rules - not for restriction, but because they create the foundation for safe and reliable operations? Do you enjoy turning technical complexity into clear, structured, and traceable compliance evidence? Then this might be the mission for you. As an Airworthiness Engineer at Avilus, you will support the development, documentation, verification, and approval of our unmanned aircraft systems for real-world deployment. Your work will connect system design, safety assessments, operational requirements, and regulatory expectations. You will help translate engineering solutions into authority-ready compliance documentation - from requirements and verification evidence to SORA-based operational approvals.


Tasks

• Support the development of certification and airworthiness strategies for Avilus unmanned aircraft systems under the EASA Specific Category, including SORA, SAIL, Operational Safety Objectives, and applicable Means of Compliance activities.
• Derive and structure certification and compliance requirements from regulatory sources, authority material, guidance material and project-specific certification assumptions.
• Develop and maintain compliance checklists, OSO matrices, statements of compliance, technical dossiers and other airworthiness-related documentation.
• Prepare authority-ready compliance evidence packages by connecting requirements, means of compliance, verification evidence, technical documentation and compliance arguments.
• Support SORA-based operational approval activities by consolidating technical, operational, and safety-related inputs.
• Coordinate and review compliance inputs together with the responsible engineering, maintenance and design teams.
• Work closely with system engineering, safety, avionics, flight test, maintenance and design teams to ensure regulatory expectations are reflected in requirements, architectures, verification plans and project documentation.
• Support configuration management, change control and traceability across requirements, design data, verification evidence, and certification documentation.

Qualifications

• Degree: Completed degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• Experience: At least 3 years of practical experience in aerospace engineering, airworthiness, certification, systems engineering, safety engineering, continued airworthiness, or a related technical discipline.
• Method-Knowledge: Familiarity with aviation regulatory frameworks and compliance activities, preferably including EASA Open, Specific and Certified Categories, SORA, Operational Safety Objectives, Regulations (EU) 2019/947 and 2019/945 including related AMC/GM, SC Light-UAS Medium Risk and High Risk, EASA Part 21, applicable Means of Compliance, requirements engineering, configuration management, change control, compliance verification, and traceability.
• Tool-Knowledge (mandatory): Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel, as well as experience with structured documentation, document control, and version management tools such as Git, SharePoint, or equivalents.
• Tool-Knowledge (optional): Polarion, Siemens Teamcenter, or comparable requirements management and PLM tools.
• Required for employment: Security clearance (Ü2-Sabotageschutz) approval (note: relationships in countries according to § 13 para. 1 no. 17 SÜG may result in a negative assessment)

Benefits

• Highly motivated, dynamic team
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days of paid time off
• Short decision-making paths and genuine scope to make an impact in a growing high-tech company
• Modern tools and digital processes
• Room for professional development
• Employee profit participation program — you benefit directly from Avilus's success
• Wellpass fitness membership

Application Documents

• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of motivation
• Certificates / reports / references