Team Lead - Product Engineering (m/f/d)

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The What: As the Team Lead Product Engineering at Blackwave, you build and lead the team that turns our product concepts into real hardware. You guide a group of engineers developing advanced composite space tanks - ensuring ideas become scalable, high-performance products ready for manufacturing and flight. 

You work hands-on with your team on day-to-day engineering challenges while translating company and department goals into clear team priorities. As the team grows, you shape its structure, strengthen collaboration across departments, and enable engineers to perform at their best. You are not just an expert engineer — you are the person who builds the team that delivers the product. 

The Why: Building hardware for space requires more than great engineering — it requires strong teams that can move fast, collaborate across disciplines, and make smart technical decisions under pressure. 

At Blackwave, we are developing the next generation of composite tanks for the space industry. This role ensures our product engineering team has the leadership, structure, and technical guidance needed to bring these products from concept to launch-ready hardware. 

YOUR MISSION: 
• Build and lead the product engineering team: Lead and develop a small team of engineers responsible for product engineering activities.
• Translate strategy into action: Turn department targets into clear team goals and ensure the team delivers on them.
• Stay close to the engineering work: Work hands-on with your team on daily engineering tasks and technical problem solving.
• Develop advanced composite products: Engineer composite tank products with a strong focus on scalable production and fast development cycles.
• Ensure product performance: Support the team invalidating designs and maintaining performance throughout the product development process.
• Create structure and collaboration: Build team processes and strong interfaces with Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, Quality, and other departments.
• Enable your engineers to succeed: Develop your team members, identify capability gaps, and help engineers grow into stronger contributors.

YOUR PROFILE:
YOUR PROFILE 

• Engineering Foundation: Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a comparable technical field.

• Composite Engineering Experience: At least 2+ years of relevant experience working with advanced composites or high-pressure tanks in an industrial environment.
• First Leadership Experience: You have already coordinated or managed a small team (for example students, interns, or junior engineers) and enjoy developing people.
• Hands-on Engineer: You enjoy solving technical problems yourself while guiding the team toward the best solutions.
• Structured & Accountable: You combine a strong sense of ownership with a structured way of working and getting things done.
• Cross-Functional Collaborator: You are comfortable working with different teams across the organization and aligning technical and operational goals.
• Growth Mindset: You want to grow into a stronger engineering leader and help build a high-performing team.
• Language Skills: English at least C1 level is required. German skills are a plus.

WHAT WE OFFER:
• Personal responsibility & creative freedom:You actively contribute to the further development of our production technologies.
• Flexible working hours & mobile working:Work-life balance is not an empty promise with us.
• Start-up spirit meets aerospace:flat hierarchies, short decision-makingprocessesand room for innovation.
• Individual benefits:Choose between a Germany ticket,Egym-Wellpassor a tax-free benefit in kind with the Give Card.
• Fresh food every day:Shared lunch break with healthy, varied dishes.
• Alpine view included:Our roof terrace invites you to relax after work.
• We live and breathe team culture:whetherit'sa tech talk, teameventor after-work - we celebrate successes together.

Please send your CV in English and get ready for take-off!