Application Engineer Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (m/f/x)

Working at NLR means working in a national and international high-tech environment. Collaboration and involvement are highly valued by us. By giving you freedom and personal responsibility, you are best able to achieve groundbreaking innovations. Do you want to develop yourself both professionally and personally? That is also possible at NLR as a learning organization, supplemented by a training budget, a mentor, internal coaches, and good contacts with vocational, applied sciences, and universities.

In addition to all this, we offer you:

• The opportunity to contribute to complex and socially relevant issues;

• Sufficient holiday and ATV days (45 in total for full-time employment) for a good work-life balance;

• An end-of-year bonus of 8%;

• An allowance for your healthcare costs;

• Extra paid parental leave;

• The possibility to develop yourself with education and courses that match your ambitions.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) play a central role in the modern threat landscape and constitute the most recent threat to critical infrastructure in the Netherlands. At NLR, we advise our military and civil partners on how they can best protect themselves against this new threat, also known as Counter-UAS (C-UAS). Do you want to play a vital role in this? Then we are looking for you!

As a C-UAS Application Engineer at NLR, you are responsible for researching, analyzing, and testing hardware, with a focus on (C-)UASs. You thoroughly investigate the technical specifications, capabilities, and limitations of these systems.

• You map out the possibilities and limitations of UASs;

• You work on the development of effective countermeasures to reduce the threat of UASs, such as identifying vulnerabilities;

• You evaluate detection and neutralization techniques for unauthorized UAS activities.

An important part of your activities consists of work with laser systems. You participate in test campaigns with lasers, both in the laboratory and on-site in the field.

You are involved in the preparation and setup of experiments, the drafting and configuration of sensors. You operate laser systems and collect and process the test data.

In doing so, you work closely with other experts to validate the results and ensure the effectiveness of the countermeasures.

Your activities focus particularly on:

• Research and analysis of UAV systems;

• Conducting tests and experiments to understand the operation of UAV systems;

• Drafting, configuring, and operating measuring equipment;

• Operating laser systems during experiments;

• Documenting and reporting the results of the research;

• Collaboration with experts to interpret and understand the results.

• A proactive and assertive attitude;

• Enthusiasm for researching and analyzing complex technical systems;