# Test Engineer - Environment

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: London, England
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Test Engineer - Environment at Helsing, you will be responsible for designing, executing, and analysing environmental stress test campaigns across various drone sub-systems and Ground Support Equipment (GSE).

## Company Background

Helsing is a defence AI company that aims to protect democracies through technological leadership.

## Responsibilities

- Design and execute vibration test campaigns (sine sweep, random vibration, shock) on drone sub-systems and GSE hardware.

- Execute controlled thermal exposure tests across the full operational temperature range on assigned sub-systems.

- Conduct dust and water ingress tests on drone enclosures, connectors, and GSE hardware.

- Run humidity-controlled and salt-spray campaigns to identify corrosion risks.

- Validate component behaviour under simulated low-pressure conditions.

- Characterize material and joint fatigue over the required operational life of assigned sub-systems.

- Perform failure mode boundary testing to physically map the failure envelope and validate safety margins.

## Requirements

- Working knowledge of applicable environmental test standards.

- Expertise in physical instrumentation, including strain gauges, accelerometers, thermocouples, pressure transducers, and load cells.

- Solid understanding of structural mechanics, material fatigue, vibration dynamics, and shock response.

- Experience with thermal chambers, thermal cycling rigs, IR cameras, and thermocouple mapping.

- Hands-on experience operating vibration tables, shock rigs, thermal chambers, IP spray equipment, and salt-spray cabinets.

- Proficiency with precision measurement tools for pre- and post-test validation.

- Basic familiarity with weapons hardware constraints and ITAR/EAR export control obligations.

## Nice to Have

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

- Direct experience with environmental chamber operation, vibration testing, and physical instrumentation.

- Prior exposure to defense, dual-use, or regulated hardware in a test context.

- Experience in an aerospace or defense environment operating under ITAR/EAR or equivalent national defense export control frameworks.

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- environmental testing
- vibration testing
- thermal testing
- physical instrumentation
- mechanical systems
- metrology

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- direct experience with environmental chamber operation
- prior exposure to defense, dual-use, or regulated hardware

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