Grants Specialist

Alicante, Spain

#Join us in enabling drones to populate our skies


At Embention, we have been driven since 2007 by a clear mission: Enabling drones to populate our skies.

We provide more than 700 customers in 70 countries including internationally renowned companies such as Toyota, Amazon Prime Air, and Honda with Veronte autopilots, critical avionics, and software for their professional drones and eVTOLs. All our systems are developed in accordance with DO-178C, DO-254, and DO-160 standards, making us the only company in the sector certified by AESA and EASA as both a POA and APDOA.

The core of our company lies in our R&D team, made up of over 100 multidisciplinary engineers. Together with the rest of the organization, we are a team of 180 professionals united by a single goal: to innovate and push the boundaries of UAV technology.

Following a record-breaking 2025 marked by strong stock market performance, the launch of industrial production in the United Arab Emirates, and the establishment of a subsidiary in the United States, we are looking to continue expanding our team and driving continuous R&D development.

If you are passionate about our mission and want to be part of this journey, we are looking for you.

🌟 What would your mission be?

Drive the acquisition and management of public funding for R&D projects.

Manage the identification, application, monitoring, and justification of grants, ensuring compliance with technical, administrative, and financial requirements.

We are looking for an organized and detail-oriented person with a technical-financial mindset, capable of coordinating the full lifecycle of a grant.

πŸ’‘ What will your responsibilities be?

  • Identify public funding opportunities aligned with R&D, technological innovation, and industrial development projects.
  • Analyze the feasibility of funding opportunities and coordinate the preparation of technical, financial, and administrative proposals.
  • Monitor deadlines, milestones, deliverables, and documentation associated with each grant.
  • Prepare justification reports, follow-up reports, and documentation required by funding bodies.
  • Coordinate the financial justification of grants, ensuring the correct eligibility of expenses and supporting evidence.
  • Work cross-functionally with technical, financial, and project management teams.

πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ What do we need?

  • University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Law, Engineering, or related fields.
  • Previous experience in grant management, public funding, grants, funding, or R&D projects.
  • Knowledge of the full lifecycle of a public grant: search, application, monitoring, and justification.
  • Ability to interpret calls for proposals, regulatory bases, administrative requirements, and eligibility criteria.
  • Strong writing, analytical, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
  • High level of Spanish and English, both written and spoken.

πŸ“š What do we value?

  • Experience with European, national, and regional funding programs such as Horizon Europe, EDF (European Defence Fund), CDTI, Programa INNTERCONECTA STEP, PERTE, IVACE+i, EIC Accelerator, or other public funding programs.
  • Experience in technological, industrial, aeronautical, aerospace, defense, electronics, or software projects.
  • Financial knowledge related to budgets, cost accounting, expense eligibility, and audits.Β 
  • Knowledge of applicable grant regulations, double funding control, and compliance with ERDF requirements or other public funding programs.
  • Experience writing technical and financial reports.
  • Autonomy, initiative, and the ability to work with multiple deadlines and a high level of documentation requirements.
  • Double degree, especially if one of them is in Law.


Embention is an equal opportunity employer. Recruitment decisions are made based on experience, qualifications, and alignment with role requirements.


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