Jobs at Destinus Group BV

Develop and implement machine learning, Bayesian optimization, and numerical algorithms to improve CFD-based aerodynamic design for unmanned vehicles. Evaluate algorithms on real-world simulations, assess results, present findings, and deploy solutions into the design pipeline. The role involves collaboration between aerodynamics and ML teams, with work spanning research, software development, and engineering implementation.

Coordinate workshop stores, warehouse operations, logistics, manufacturing preparation, inventory records, tooling, equipment maintenance, and production data. Review drawings, define operation sequences, prepare work instructions, assess manufacturability, and ensure materials and documentation are ready. Support machining and production-floor activities when needed while collaborating with engineering, procurement, suppliers, and production teams to maintain efficient operations.

Design, develop, integrate, and test flight-critical avionics hardware, including schematics, PCB layouts, prototypes, and manufacturing files. Own hardware requirements and lifecycle activities, develop Linux-based automated test scripts, and support embedded C/C++ validation. Perform system integration, diagnostics, and functional testing using laboratory equipment and serial interfaces. Collaborate across engineering teams and support flight-test preparation, telemetry monitoring, and field operations.

Lead strategic defense programs in the Netherlands from engineering development through testing, qualification, certification, and operational delivery. Coordinate engineering, operations, testing, production, customers, and senior stakeholders while managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, and deliverables. Translate operational and customer requirements into technical priorities, resolve cross-functional challenges, and represent the company with government, military, and industry stakeholders.

Lead the strategy, standards, and delivery of Destinus’s European corporate workplace portfolio. Manage eight Office Managers, office vendors, budgets, leases, technology, compliance, employee experience, site openings, fit-outs, relocations, and business continuity. Partner with HR, IT, Security, Finance, landlords, and senior leadership to deliver consistent, safe, efficient, and welcoming office environments across multiple countries.

Lead the company’s global insurance program across strategy, renewals, claims, broker and carrier relationships, coverage analysis, compliance, budgeting, contract support, and enterprise risk management. The role advises leadership and stakeholders on insurance requirements, manages multinational regulatory considerations, and optimizes coverage for aerospace, defense, and manufacturing risks.

Lead the technical development of UAV platforms from concept through compliant, flight-ready deployment. Provide direction across mechanical and electrical engineering, systems integration, and flight testing while making platform trade-off decisions. Own technical responsibility for a UAV platform, contribute hands-on in a specialty area, guide cross-functional teams, and deliver iterative product improvements in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.

Leads Destinus’ global commercial partnership strategy across defense primes, system integrators, capability providers, manufacturers, joint ventures, and co-production partners. Builds B2B relationships, negotiates complex industrial and strategic agreements, identifies market opportunities, and supports localization and scalable production. Collaborates with Legal, M&A, Finance, Engineering, and Production to ensure partnerships align with product roadmaps, compliance requirements, procurement frameworks, and sovereign industrial policies.

Manage the Munich office, including daily operations, front-of-house services, meetings, facilities, apartments, fleet administration, vendors, onboarding, events, and workplace improvements. Coordinate with landlords, HR, European office managers, and internal stakeholders. Maintain compliance with health, safety, fire protection, accessibility, risk assessments, emergency procedures, and certifications.

Design and develop high-performance C++ software for mission-critical UAV systems. Integrate software with hardware and avionics, build real-time and resource-constrained components, contribute to system architecture and distributed data pipelines, and improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the software stack.

Supports talent acquisition by scheduling interviews, communicating with candidates, maintaining the applicant tracking system, tracking hiring progress, assisting HR operations, and sourcing candidates through LinkedIn and job boards. The role requires strong organization, communication, networking, and multitasking skills, along with fluency in English and Spanish and full-time availability.

Perform electromagnetic and RCS simulations, design and optimize antennas, radomes, and multi-antenna integrations for UAVs. Validate designs via lab, field, and anechoic chamber measurements and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure reliable RF/mmWave performance and subsystem coexistence.

Lead end-to-end qualification programs for energetic systems (rocket motors, warheads, pyrotechnics, SAF devices). Define test campaigns to NATO standards, author qualification documentation, manage TQ/FAI/lot acceptance/in‑service surveillance, support safety cases, drive anomaly investigations, maintain configuration and traceability, and coordinate cross-discipline integration through gate reviews.

Design and maintain training solutions for operators and maintainers of advanced UAV systems. Conduct training needs and task analyses, develop curricula, lesson plans, simulators requirements, and assessment methods. Ensure alignment with engineering, maintenance, and logistics data, support training effectiveness evaluations, and contribute to proposals and integrated support solutions throughout the product lifecycle.

Maintain and own spare-parts master data and material traceability in ERP, monitor inventory health, support provisioning and obsolescence management, generate logistics and provisioning reports, review engineering changes for spare-part impact, and coordinate across engineering, procurement, production, quality, and warehouse to ensure operational readiness and compliance.

Design PCB-level RF and analog circuits for radar receivers and transmitters using circuit and 3D EM simulators. Lead design reviews, select components, guide PCB implementation, perform post-layout analysis, align simulations with measurements, and support test plan and system requirement definition.

Lead and execute UAV flight operations and test campaigns, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, mission readiness, telemetry/data collection, and coordination with engineering and customers. Oversee logistics, prepare documentation and manuals, train and mentor operators, produce test reports, identify risks and implement mitigations, and frequently travel to support field activities and demonstrations.

Design mechanical parts, assemblies, and mechanisms for hypersonic UAVs using CAD (Siemens NX or similar). Apply GD&T, DFM/DFA, and FEA/FEM to ensure survivability and manufacturability. Create drawings, technical documentation, collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and support product lifecycle from concept through production and testing.

Lead design, analysis, testing, and certification of rocket motors and pyrotechnic components. Develop tools for sizing and performance estimation, support TPS and nozzle design, perform static-fire testing and failure investigations, produce compliance documentation to MIL-STD/STANAG, and coordinate cross-disciplinary teams and external partners to achieve qualification and certification.

Plan, coordinate, and execute UAV flight test campaigns across Europe; define data acquisition needs; perform hazard analyses; analyze test data and produce reports; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve systems and accelerate development.