Senior Payload Integration Engineer - UGV Platforms (m/f/d)

Payload Integration Architecture and Ownership

• Define and own the electrical, electronic, and mechanical integration concept for various payloads across our UGV platforms, ensuring scalable and reusable interfaces instead of one-off solutions.
• Design, specify, and validate payload interfaces: power supply, signal routing, communication interfaces, connectors, mounting concepts, cooling, grounding and shielding, and serviceability.
• Enable a payload-flexible vehicle platform that supports a wide range of customer-specific payloads (power profiles, environmental conditions, data interfaces) without major redesigns for every new configuration.
• Electrical, Electronic and mechanical Integration
• Integrate payloads into the vehicle power, network, compute, and control architectures: schematics, harnessing, connectors, fusing, diagnostics, and interface documentation.
• Work with vehicle communication buses (CAN, automotive Ethernet) to bring payload data and control interfaces cleanly into the vehicle architecture.
• Own the health of the complete E/E system: systematic cross-domain troubleshooting across payload, harness, power, compute, and software.
• Drive payload mounting together with internal vehicle teams and external suppliers: brackets, packaging, accessibility, vibration robustness, environmental protection, maintainability, and manufacturability.

Bring-up, Commissioning and Validation

• Plan and execute payload bring-up and commissioning on vehicle prototypes and demonstrators: mechanical fitment, electrical integration, software provisioning (flashing, configuration, diagnostics), troubleshooting, and validation up to full system commissioning where the complete E/E system is proven to work.
• Define acceptance criteria, build and run system-level test setups, automate recurring integration and regression tests with scripts and test tooling, and support field testing.
• Translate integration findings into design improvements for vehicle and payload interfaces, and feed validated test workflows into our CI and test infrastructure together with the HW integration and SW Factory teams.
• Work directly with payload suppliers: clarify requirements, review technical documentation, align interface specifications, and drive issue resolution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Documentation

• Create clear interface control documents, integration guides, test reports, lessons learned, and reusable standards for future payload integrations.
• Actively support build-ups, rework, payload installation, and vehicle-level commissioning in the workshop during prototype and customer-specific integration phases.