# Senior Systems Engineer – Combat Aircraft (Security)

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

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## Description

## Job Overview

Helsing is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer specialising in Product Security, Cryptography, and Cyber to join their European team. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and governing the security architecture of a software-defined intelligence layer for one of Europe's most advanced combat aircraft.

## Key Responsibilities

- Guide hardware and software design teams through security requirements specification and architectural decisions, ensuring compliance with national and NATO-level security regulations

- Develop and own the aircraft-level security concept, derived from applicable rules, regulations, and standards

- Define and implement engineering design processes applicable to product security, establishing repeatable, auditable workflows

- Create and maintain compliance artefacts required by national and NATO security authorities

- Design the security architecture for intra- and inter-vehicle communications

- Develop the design concept for aircraft-level security functions, including erase and zeroise

- Conduct vulnerability analysis and adversarial testing on platform systems

- Define the platform cryptographic management concept, including crypto key management architecture and lifecycle processes

- Engage directly with defence customers and national security authorities

## Requirements

- Designed and delivered end-to-end security architectures for military or defence-grade systems

- Understanding and application of NATO security standards and national-level regulations

- Developed cryptographic management concepts for complex platforms

- Conducted structured vulnerability analysis and adversarial threat assessments

- Defined communication security designs for intra- and inter-platform data exchange

- Professional fluency in German

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with IFF systems and their associated security and certification requirements

- Experience designing erase and zeroise functions at aircraft or platform level

- Background in airborne mission systems or avionics security

- Exposure to Common Criteria evaluation processes or equivalent assurance frameworks

- Experience supporting security authority interactions as a named security engineering lead

## 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
- NATO security standards
- cryptographic management
- vulnerability analysis
- German

### Nice to have
- IFF systems
- erase and zeroise functions
- airborne mission systems
- Common Criteria evaluation processes

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