The role involves ensuring the quality of supplier processes and products for strategic defense projects.
MadridNo Spanish needed
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- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- University degree
- Benefits
- Flexible pay plan
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Skills
This job advert was originally written in Spanish.
Requirements
What we're looking for
✅ Education:
Aeronautical Engineering, Telecommunications, Electronics, Computer Science, or similar.
✅ Minimum experience:
5 to 10 years of experience in systems architecture, complex systems integration, or aeronautical mission systems.
✅ Technical skills:
• Architecture and integration of complex systems.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Functional and physical architectures (FBS).
• Embedded mission systems.
• Development and evolution of systems down to hardware and software levels.
• Certification and integration of systems in aircraft.
• Real-time software.
✅ Key competencies:
• Systems-level vision.
• Technical leadership skills.
• Analytical thinking and a problem-solving orientation for complex issues.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Technical communication and liaison skills.
✅ Languages:
• Advanced English is required.
Nice to have
✅ Valuable functional knowledge:
• Navigation systems and autopilot.
• Embedded radar.
• Electronic defense systems.
• Sensors and embedded systems.
• Aeronautical or defense programs.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
• Stability and Future 🏢✨: Participation in strategic programs within the Defense and Aerospace sector.
• Innovation 🚀: Work on advanced technologies applied to aircraft and mission systems.
• Real Impact 🤝: Direct involvement in defining next-generation operational capabilities.
• Technological Environment 🌍: Collaboration with leading national and international teams.
• Career Path 📈: Professional development in the architecture and engineering of complex systems.
• Continuous Training 📚: Open University and Udemy for Business.
• Exclusive Benefits 🎁 and flexible compensation 💸📊.
The role
🚀 Join our Systems Engineering team!
We are looking to hire a Mission Systems Architect for Aircraft to participate in highly complex technological projects within the Defense and Aerospace sector.
The selected candidate will play a key role in defining architectures for embedded mission systems, ensuring the correct integration of capabilities, sensors, and subsystems within aerial platforms.
What you'll do
• Define mission system architectures for aerial platforms.
• Lead the integration of complex systems in aircraft.
• Participate in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) activities.
• Analyze operational and technical requirements, ensuring their correct implementation and traceability.
• Coordinate the development of systems and subsystems from functional levels through to hardware and software implementation.
• Assess the impact of new capabilities and technologies within the overall system architecture.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, certification, and development teams.
• Participate in defining technical solutions and the evolution of advanced aeronautical architectures.
• Interact with clients, partners, and national and international technical teams.
How you'll work
📍 Location: Alcobendas (Madrid)
Hiring process
2 steps2 interviews1–2 weeks in all
Profile review
First contact
With recruitment team · Phone call · 5–10 min
A short call to get to know you and answer your questions.
Technical interview
With the team
A meeting with the team, who explain the project and day-to-day tasks and explore your technical knowledge; it may include short aptitude and English tests.
Offer and welcome
- The technical interview may include short psychological aptitude and English tests if needed.
- The first call may come from an unknown number.
About Indra
Indra is a global technology and consulting company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and a leader in IT and defense systems. It provides advanced solutions in air traffic management, defense electronics, cybersecurity, and digital transformation for clients worldwide. With a workforce of over 50,000 employees, Indra operates in more than 140 countries, making it one of Europe's largest defense and technology firms.
In Spain, Indra has a strong presence with major offices in Madrid, Alcobendas, and other cities, and it is a key player in the national defense and aerospace sectors. The company offers a wide range of roles for international professionals, from engineering and cybersecurity to project management and software development. Indra's work culture emphasizes innovation and technical excellence, and it actively recruits international talent, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in defense, space, and digital transformation.
- Industry
- IT and Defense
- Founded
- 1993
- Employees
- 50,000+
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spain
- In Spain
- Madrid, Barcelona, Alcobendas
- Website
- indracompany.com
Good to know if you are moving
- Indra is a major defense contractor, offering opportunities to work on advanced defense systems like SCAPA and NGWS.
- The company has a strong focus on innovation, with significant investment in R&D and technology development.
- Indra provides hybrid and remote work options for many roles, offering flexibility for international hires.
- With offices in Madrid and Barcelona, Indra offers a chance to live in Spain's two largest cities.
- Indra is a global leader in air traffic management, with its systems used in over 100 countries.
In their own words
About the company & team
At Indra Group, we protect what matters most.
We lead the development of cutting-edge technological solutions that strengthen national and international security.
Additional information
As a company, we understand equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. Based on this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, equal pay, and work-life balance.
This commitment is reflected in the promotion of respectful and inclusive work environments, where all people are treated with dignity, can develop professionally, and have equal opportunities in selection, training, and promotion processes, offering a work environment free from any discrimination based on sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance.
¡INDRA is a Top Employer 2026 company! Join a company certified as one of the best employers in Spain, thanks to our comprehensive HR management and the conditions we offer our professionals.
Location
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