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Mechanical Engineer – Defense Tech M/F • Contract type : Permanent • Location : Munich (Hybrid / On-site lab and workshop presence required) • Ref: 2282 • Contact: [email protected] The recruiting company: Our client is a European start-up specializing in electronic warfare, secure communications, and precision localization technologies for the defense sector. Key points of the position: Reporting to the engineering team, you will design and develop the mechanical architecture of advanced defense systems, ensuring reliability, durability, and usability in demanding operational environments. As a Mechanical Engineer, your missions will include: • Developing rapid prototypes using 3D printing and in-house workshop tools to enable fast design iteration and testing, • Designing complex mechanical housings with strong focus on ruggedness, tactical ergonomics, and usability in demanding field conditions, • Optimizing designs for large-scale manufacturing processes such as CNC machining, injection molding, or sheet metal fabrication, • Ensuring modularity and maintainability so systems can be easily serviced or repaired in field conditions, • Selecting materials capable of withstanding shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures while meeting RF transparency or EMI shielding requirements, • Managing technical relationships with suppliers and manufacturing partners to ensure quality and production scalability, • Supporting environmental qualification and certification processes including MIL-STD-810 and IP67/IP68 testing. Necessary skills: • You must have a degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, • You have experience developing hardware products from prototype stage to serial production, ideally in defense, aerospace, or ruggedized industrial environments, • You are experienced in rapid prototyping and iterative design processes using tools such as 3D printing, • You are highly proficient with modern 3D CAD tools such as SolidWorks or Siemens NX, • You have strong understanding of design for manufacturing and mechanical reliability, • Experience with human-machine interface design or ergonomic design for harsh environments is highly appreciated, • Fluent German and English are imperative. Eligibility for German security clearance (SÜ2/Ü2) is required : German or EU citizenchip mandatory. Salary: 60–80k euros gross annual. RHESO.TECH, a specialized recruitment agency https://www.rheso.tech/ Keywords : mechanical engineering, product design, ruggedized systems, rapid prototyping, 3D printing, CAD design, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, design for manufacturing, MIL-STD-810, IP67, defense technology, Germany