System Designer / Engineer Head-up Display (HUD)

Responsibilities

As a System Architect HUD, you will take on a central technical role in the development of complex Head-up Display systems. You will be responsible for the overall system architecture, ensuring that optical, electronic, mechanical, and thermodynamic components are integrated into a high-performance, robust, and certifiable system solution. You will work closely with the departments of Optics, Photonics, Electronics, Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Process Development, and Project Management, as well as with customers and external partners.

You will translate technical and customer-specific requirements into clear system concepts, specifications, and robust interface definitions. You will accompany the development at the system level from initial conception through design and implementation to verification and validation. A special focus will be on the integration of the micro-optical waveguide and the image generator into the overall system. Furthermore, you will contribute your expertise to design decisions, risk analyses, technical reviews, and customer presentations.

You will have the opportunity to actively evaluate technological developments such as new display and light source technologies and to actively shape product development.

Project No.:

1084056

Project Title:

Job Type:

freelance

• You will be responsible for the overall system architecture of the HUD system, including the interfaces to the micro-optical waveguide and the image generator.
• You will conceptualize, specify, implement, and test system solutions in close cooperation with optics, process development, and customer teams.
• You will design and describe optical, electronic, thermodynamic, and mechanical interfaces in a comprehensible manner.
• You will plan and design systems considering specific certification and aviation requirements, such as DO-254.
• You will support project management in effort estimations, risk analyses, and technical presentations to the customer.
• You will create and maintain system requirements, system and subsystem specifications, and interface documents.
• You will conduct system and architecture reviews and evaluate technical design variants, such as new display and light source technologies.
• System Designer / Engineer Head-up Display (HUD)

Requirements

For this challenging position, you bring several years of experience in Systems Engineering or System Architecture of complex mechatronic or optoelectronic systems. You have a sound technical understanding and can confidently assess the interrelationships between optics, electronics, mechanics, thermodynamics, and software. It is particularly important that you can systematically analyze technical requirements, develop suitable system solutions, and translate them into clear specifications and verifiable criteria.

A completed degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics or Photonics, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, or a comparable field forms the professional basis. Ideally, you have already worked in the aerospace environment and are familiar with the special requirements for environmental conditions, functional safety, evidence, and certification. You work independently, flexibly, and meticulously, and can communicate complex technical issues understandably.

As you will be working in an international environment with different disciplines and customers, you need very good German and English language skills, both written and spoken.

Additional Information:

SOLCOM is one of the leading technology service providers in the areas of software development, IT, and engineering. For over 20 years, we have been a partner to globally operating top companies in all industries and are deployed worldwide wherever innovation is decisive.

• You have a completed degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics/Photonics, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, or a comparable field.
• You have five to ten years of professional experience in Systems Engineering or System Architecture of complex mechatronic or optoelectronic systems.
• You possess demonstrably sound knowledge in the development of optical, electrical, and electro-optical systems, including electronic control and cooling concepts.
• You have programming skills, preferably in Python, and ideally also in C or C++.
• You preferably have experience in the aerospace environment and with relevant standards, environmental conditions, and requirements for functional safety in aviation and spaceflight.
• You are familiar with requirements management; experience with model-based systems engineering, e.g., SysML or UML, is an advantage.
• You work flexibly, systematically, and independently, and can clearly analyze and document complex technical contexts.
• You communicate very confidently in German and English, both written and spoken.

Project details

Thuringia

2026-10-26

6 months

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 6 Monate
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Thüringen, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German