Requirements Engineer: Material Science Applications (m/f/d)

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Evident employs around 4,500 people at a total of 57 locations worldwide. Evident Europe, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, employs approximately 770 people in 16 countries. The product portfolio includes a wide range of microscope systems used in clinical diagnostics, medical and basic research, as well as in various industrial areas.

Evident Technology Center Europe GmbH (ETCE), based in Münster, Germany, has been developing and producing intelligent software and hardware solutions for microscopy as a global "Center of Excellence" for over 35 years. Originally, ETCE was part of Olympus Corporation. Olympus spun off the business unit in April 2022 and transferred the business activities of its Scientific Solutions division to the newly founded, independent company Evident.

You will join an experienced agile development team working on the PRECiV software, EVIDENT’s intelligent software platform for advanced measurements, AI-enhanced image analysis during production, quality control, and inspection operations.

We are looking for a Requirements Engineer to join our PRECiV Scrum teams. In this role, you will be the bridge between stakeholders, product management, and engineering — ensuring that we build the right systems, features, and software for our customers in industrial applications. You will play a key part in translating complex business and technical needs into clear, actionable, and testable requirements. The job is hybrid/on-site, office located in Münster, Germany.

Tasks

• Elicit, analyze, and document requirements from stakeholders including product management, R&D, regulatory affairs, and external customers for software solutions in the field of materials science
• Translate business and user needs into clear and testable functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and maintain requirements specifications, use cases and user stories
• Ensure requirements are consistent, complete, feasible, and aligned with applicable standards
• Collaborate closely with the development team throughout the development lifecycle
• Facilitate requirements review workshops and validation sessions with stakeholders
• Continuously improve requirements engineering processes, templates, and tooling within the team

Requirements

• Degree in natural science, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience in requirements engineering or a comparable bridging role between domain and software development
• IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) certification is desirable
• Familiarity with agile methods, ideally with hands-on Scrum experience
• Strong analytical mindset and the ability to translate complex scientific topics into precise software requirements
• Practical programming experience in an object-oriented language such as C++ is a plus
• Very good English and good German language skills

Benefits

• Flexible working hours, incl. mobile work
• 30 days of holiday time each year
• 13 salaries a year
• Regular training courses
• Extensive company pension scheme
• Job bike
• Preventive healthcare, free beverages & fresh fruit and vegetables daily
• Joint company events and activities
• Interesting, diversified field of activity in an international working environment