Senior Hardware Certification Engineer (m/f/d)

As a Senior Hardware Certification Engineer with focus on DO-254, you will be an important part of our Certification and Systems Engineering organization, supporting the development and certification of advanced unmanned aircraft systems. Your main focus will be the development assurance and certification of airborne electronic hardware. You will work closely with Hardware, Systems Engineering, Safety, Verification & Validation and Certification teams to ensure that hardware development and verification activities fulfil the applicable certification objectives. You will translate certification and safety requirements into practical engineering activities and help ensure that the required compliance evidence is complete, consistent, traceable and ready for review by certification authorities. What is your Day to Day Mission: • Plan, coordinate and support DO-254 / ED-80 hardware certification activities throughout the hardware development lifecycle. • Develop, review and maintain certification artefacts such as the Plan for Hardware Aspects of Certification (PHAC), Hardware Verification Plan (HVP), Hardware Configuration Management Plan (HCMP), Hardware Accomplishment Summary (HAS) and supporting compliance evidence. • Define and maintain DO-254 compliance matrices and ensure that applicable objectives are addressed by appropriate engineering evidence. • Support determination and justification of the applicable Hardware Design Assurance Level (DAL) together with Systems and Safety Engineering. • Ensure bidirectional requirements traceability between system requirements, hardware requirements, design data and verification evidence. • Review hardware requirements, conceptual and detailed designs, verification activities and lifecycle data against DO-254 objectives. • Define and review hardware verification methods, test cases, procedures, analyses and results, including the required level of independence. • Support compliance of FPGA, programmable logic, complex electronic hardware and electronic assemblies, as applicable to the individual programme. • Assess COTS, reused or previously developed hardware and define appropriate certification and compliance activities. • Support configuration management, problem reporting, change control and lifecycle data management required for certification. • Perform compliance reviews, gap analyses and change-impact assessments and track findings through closure. • Work closely with Hardware Development, Systems Engineering, Safety, Test & Verification and Configuration Management to integrate certification activities into the engineering lifecycle. • Support certification reviews, audits and authority engagements and provide clear technical justification for the selected means of compliance. • Continuously improve the organisation's DO-254 processes, templates, tooling and certification methods. What you bring to the team: • Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or a comparable technical discipline. • Professional experience in airborne electronic hardware development, hardware verification, aerospace certification or development assurance. • Strong practical knowledge of RTCA DO-254 / EUROCAE ED-80 and its application to airborne electronic hardware. • Experience with hardware certification planning, requirements management, verification and compliance evidence. • Good understanding of FPGA / CPLD or complex electronic hardware development, electronic hardware and PCB development, hardware requirements and design reviews, requirements-based verification, configuration management, change control, requirements traceability, verification independence, and COTS or reused hardware assessment. • Experience creating or reviewin