# Systems Engineer - Low Observability Testing

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

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## Description

## Job Overview

You will own the low observability (LO) testing roadmap for our aircraft, ensuring they are hard to detect. This involves setting up and maintaining our own radar cross-section (RCS) and infrared (IR) test facilities, defining procedures for verifying signature performance, and supervising external measurement laboratories.

## Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain a multi-year LO testing roadmap aligned with programme milestones.

- Design, specify, and commission in-house LO test facilities, including anechoic chambers and radar hardware.

- Create master verification and validation test plans for RCS and IR signature measurement.

- Produce detailed test procedures for consistent, repeatable results.

- Define statements of work for subcontracted testing and oversee supplier technical guidance.

## Requirements

- Experience in planning and running RCS measurement campaigns.

- Expertise in specifying, building, or operating antenna or RCS test facilities.

- Proficiency with high-frequency measurement equipment such as vector network analysers and spectrum analysers.

- Strong systems engineering practice in verification and validation.

- Fluency in English and German, both written and spoken.

- Ability to obtain an extended German security clearance.

## Nice to Have

- Experience measuring infrared signatures alongside radar cross-section.

## 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.

- 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
- radar cross-section measurement
- infrared signature measurement
- systems engineering
- high-frequency measurement equipment
- German security clearance
- English
- German

### Nice to have
- infrared signatures measurement

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