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- Grade
- AD 7
- Contract
- Temporary agent · Agency's Temporary Staff
- Security clearance
- SECRET UE/EU SECRET
- Published salary
- €7,876/mo
- Deadline
- October 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM · Europe/Brussels
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
- Reference
- EDA/2026/171a
European Defence Agency
The European Defence Agency supports member states in developing defence capabilities and strengthening European defence cooperation.
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The jobholder leads the technical content and evaluation logic for Command & Control and Electronic Warfare innovation challenges and experimentation campaigns under the Hub for EU Defence Innovation. The strongest stated requirement is at least six years of relevant professional experience with C2/EW domain expertise in an operational, capability development, test & evaluation, or system integration context.
The role matters because it leads technical evaluation of C2 and EW innovation challenges and experimentation campaigns, ensuring outputs support Member States decision making and accelerate battlefield-relevant innovation uptake.
What you would do
- Co-validate challenge statements with Member States and relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment with operational demand, constraints and realistic test environments.
- Develop and maintain evaluation criteria and weightings to ensure comparability and methodological consistency across tracks.
- Translate C2/EW operational needs into test plans, criteria, and instrumentation/data needs.
- Ensure traceability from challenge to experimentation to evidence to readiness recommendation.
- Review and pre-approve contractor test plans and verify coherence with the challenge and decision gates.
- Lead technical debriefs with test sites, ranges and end-users, review evidence packs, and formulate recommendations for pass/fail/hold decisions and readiness pathways.
- Engage military end-users, ranges and test centres to ensure operational realism, credible vignettes, and adoption-oriented outputs.
- Identify integration pathways early and flag blockers to uptake.
Eligibility snapshot
Must have
- Be a national of a Member State participating in the Agency.
- Be entitled to full rights as citizens.
- Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by laws concerning military service.
- Produce appropriate character references as to suitability for the performance of duties.
- Be physically fit to perform duties.
- Have a thorough knowledge (minimum level C1 oral and written) of one of the languages of the participating Member States and a satisfactory knowledge (minimum level B2 oral and written) of another of these languages.
- Have no personal interest which could be in conflict with disinterested discharge of duties within the Agency.
- Hold, or be in a position to obtain, a valid Personnel Security Clearance Certificate at SECRET UE/EU SECRET level.
Advantageous
- Hands-on experience in planning and/or executing operational experimentation including exposure to test ranges and instrumentation in C2/EW-relevant settings.
- Experience with interoperability and integration of C2 systems and/or EW effects on communications/sensors.
- Knowledge of EU defence structures/instruments and experience in EU/international organisations or Member State administrations.
- Familiarity with export control/safety/security constraints relevant to defence testing.
- Experience producing adoption-oriented outputs such as readiness recommendations, transition packages, evidence-based briefings.
Contract and workplace context
Temporary-agent post. Contract duration, renewal, probation and grade conditions remain governed by the official notice.
€7,876–€8,911 per month
Official grid estimate before personal allowances, deductions and location adjustments.Application toolkit
Documents
- Applications are invited with a view to establish a reserve list for the post of Project Officer Electronic Warfare at EDA.
- This list will be valid until 31/12/2028, and may be extended by decision of the Chief Executive.
- During the validity of the reserve list, successful candidates may be offered a post in EDA according to their competences in relation to the specific requirements of the vacant post.
- Inclusion on the reserve list does not imply any entitlement of employment in the Agency.Candidates must submit their application electronically solely via the EDA website.
- Applications by any other means (hard copy or ordinary e-mail) will not be accepted.
- Applications must be submitted no later than midnight.
- Candidates are reminded that the on-line application system will not accept applications after midnight (Brussels time, GMT+1) on the date of the deadline.
- Please note that once you have created your EDA profile, any correspondence regarding your application must be sent or received via your EDA profile.
Selection steps
- Applications must be submitted electronically solely via the EDA website.
- Applications must be submitted no later than midnight (Brussels time, GMT+1) on the deadline date.
- Each application will be screened based on the requirements of the job profile stated in the vacancy notice.
- The most suitable applicants will be called for an interview and a written test.
- Candidates may also be requested to take part in an assessment centre, participating in a number of individual and group activities related to the competences required for the post.
Source notice
Reference: EDA/2026/171a Directorate: Research, Technology and Innovation Directorate (RTI) Security clearance: SECRET UE/EU SECRET Indicative starting date: 16/01/2027 BACKGROUND: The European Defence Agency (EDA) was established on 12 July 2004, and is governed by Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1835 defining the…
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