# Mechanical Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Mechanical Engineer on the Physical Products team at Helsing, a defence AI company, you will translate requirements into robust, efficient, and field-ready UAV designs. Working across disciplines, you will contribute to the full hardware stack, from aerodynamic and structural subsystems to propulsion and electronics.

## Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end aspects of UAV hardware design, from early-stage concept and analysis through to flight-ready builds, taking responsibility for quality and pace of delivery.

- Work across aerodynamic, structural, propulsion, and electronic subsystems, going deep in your area of specialism while contributing to the performance of the integrated system.

- Develop and iterate prototypes at pace, balancing aerodynamic performance, structural integrity, weight, power, and manufacturability constraints.

- Define and execute hardware validation and flight-readiness testing, including analysis, bench tests, integration checks, and field trials, producing clear documentation of results and design decisions.

- Evaluate and select components and materials, working with suppliers and partners to meet technical and programme requirements.

## Requirements

- Hands-on experience designing and building UAVs or similarly complex autonomous hardware systems in any engineering discipline.

- Depth in at least one of: aerodynamics and flight mechanics, mechanical and structural design, or electronics and avionics.

- Strong prototyping track record, with experience taking hardware from concept to flying article at pace.

- Proficiency with relevant engineering tools in your domain, such as CAD, FEA, CFD, Altium, or MATLAB/Simulink.

- Experience defining and running hardware validation and test campaigns, and communicate clearly in written and spoken English.

## Nice to Have

- Experience working across more than one engineering discipline within UAV or autonomous systems development, bridging technical boundaries across a hardware programme.

- Experience collaborating with software and firmware teams on hardware and software integration challenges.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options.

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation.

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance.

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health).

- Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances.

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers.

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work.

- A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company.

## Skills

### Required
- UAV design
- aerodynamics
- structural design
- electronics
- avionics
- prototyping
- hardware validation
- testing
- English

### Nice to have
- multiple engineering disciplines
- software and firmware integration

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