Description
Job Overview
As a Systems Engineer for Weapon Integration at Helsing, you will drive all weapon integration activities for advanced aerial platforms. You will lead the end-to-end integration of various weapon systems across multiple domains, ensuring seamless functionality with core mission and avionics systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the weapon integration programme across all relevant domains, delivering a coherent system-of-systems that meets agreed performance, safety, and schedule commitments.
- Define and maintain the weapon integration roadmap, taking capabilities from concept definition through ground test, flight test, and final qualification.
- Integrate weapons with the aircraft's mission system and avionics architecture, covering data buses, stores management, software interfaces, and safe-separation requirements.
- Author technical specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and statements of work that govern delivery by internal teams, suppliers, and subcontractors.
- Shape the verification and validation strategy, and mentor engineers across the team so that integration knowledge is shared.
Requirements
- Have integrated weapons such as missiles, bombs, or rockets onto fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, and seen that capability through to qualification.
- Understand mission systems, avionic architectures, and the data bus and stores-management standards that connect them, including MIL-STD-1760 or equivalent.
- Have worked across the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements capture through verification to in-service support.
- Use engineering tools for requirements management, modelling, and simulation as part of your everyday practice.
- Communicate technical findings clearly to colleagues, customers, and suppliers, in writing and in person.
- Meet the conditions for an extended German security clearance (Ü2/Ü3), and communicate comfortably in English and German.
Nice to Have
- Have contributed to flight test campaigns and the associated safety and certification evidence.
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.