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