# Lead Field Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Washington, DC, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Lead Field Engineer at Helsing, you will own operations, designing test campaigns, coordinating teams, managing external partners, and being accountable for results. You will understand not just the technical work but also the commercial and program context it sits in.

## Responsibilities

- Test combined software and hardware products end-to-end in the lab and in the field, capturing data and providing structured feedback to Helsing's mechanical, electrical, software, and AI engineers to drive product improvement.

- Prepare, transport, mobilize, and demobilize equipment at test locations, including ports and offshore military test ranges and remote environments, and execute tests in real-world conditions at sea.

- Install AI software onto edge computing devices using Helsing's in-house deployment tools, ensuring systems are correctly configured for field conditions.

- Design, refine, and improve test plans and safety standard operating procedures, raising the bar for how Helsing conducts field operations.

- Define the resources required to maintain an effective and efficient field-testing operation.

- Embed with and train end users, and ensure safety of all participants at field test events.

- Advise on training course design and in-service support procedures, helping to shape how end users interact with Helsing's products.

- Travel to testing locations across the US as well as UK, Germany, and beyond as required.

- Embed with and host Helsing UK and EU Field Engineers to establish company-spanning best practices, procedures, and culture.

- Build and manage a team of field engineers to be the front lines of product deployment and critical connection from the end-users to product development.

## Requirements

- Strong technical aptitude and understanding of complex hardware and software products at a systems level.

- Experience assembling, deploying, and troubleshooting robots, aircraft, watercraft, or other autonomous or electromechanical systems.

- Comfortable with software deployment and debugging tools, including command-line interfaces.

- Clear communication skills in writing and speech.

- Experience independently owning critical workstreams and resolving problems without direction.

- Comfortable working at test sites for periods of up to two weeks.

- Practical, hands-on approach to working with hardware, equipment, and field environments.

- Experience managing teams of three or more, or executing complex tests as part of an independently functioning team with shared responsibility.

## Nice to Have

- Experience testing software and/or hardware products at any stage of maturity.

- Experience working at remote field sites in an operational or technical capacity.

- Experience training end users on complex hardware and/or software products.

- Experience building operations from scratch.

- Prior military experience.

- Experience working across team functions.

## Benefits

- A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking.

- A generous compensation and benefits package, including insurance coverage, flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position.

## Skills

### Required
- AI software deployment
- hardware testing
- team management
- field operations
- technical writing

### Nice to have
- military experience
- remote field site experience
- training end users
- operations management

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