Description
Job Overview
As an Electronics Engineer on the Physical Products team at Helsing, a defence AI company, you will design and build the electrical systems that bring Helsing's platforms to life. You will shape how their systems are powered, connected, and controlled, working at the intersection of hardware and systems engineering to translate complex requirements into robust, field-ready electronics.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and validate bespoke PCBs from schematic through to hands-on bring-up, covering power, digital, and mixed-signal electronics using tools such as Altium Designer or KiCad.
- Define the electrical architecture of UAV platforms, producing wiring diagrams, power distribution schemes, and interface definitions that underpin system integration across mechanical, software, and avionics boundaries.
- Select and specify components across sensors, actuators, controllers, and power systems, trading off performance, cost, availability, and integration effort to make well-reasoned, documented design decisions.
- Integrate communication interfaces such as CAN Bus, Ethernet, and RS422/485, and support RF and radio systems, ensuring robust data and power distribution across the platform.
- Define and execute unit-level tests, contribute to reliability and safety analyses such as FMEA, and produce clear design documentation including wiring diagrams, schematics, PCB layouts, and BOMs.
Requirements
- Have designed and integrated electrical and electronic systems in a professional engineering context, ideally within aerospace or a similarly demanding domain.
- Be proficient in PCB design and layout, with hands-on experience using ECAD tools such as Altium Designer or KiCad and simulation tools such as LTSpice.
- Can interpret complex third-party datasheets and technical documentation, translating electrical characteristics and constraints into sound, well-reasoned design decisions.
- Have experience designing cable harnesses and defining communication interfaces, and have worked with RF or radio systems in a hardware integration context.
- Collaborate effectively across mechanical, software, and systems engineering disciplines, and communicate clearly in written and spoken English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ECAD/MCAD co-design workflows and the integration of electrical systems into complex electromechanical assemblies.
- Experience contributing to reliability or safety analyses such as FMEA in a production or pre-production engineering context.
Benefits
- A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking.
- Competitive compensation and VSOP options.
- Relocation support.
- Social and education allowances.
- Regular company events and all-hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe.