Description
Job Overview
As an Electronics Engineer on the Physical Products team at Helsing, a defence AI company, you will design and build electrical systems for Helsing's platforms. Your work will directly advance Helsing's mission to equip democratic societies with capable, reliable defence technology.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and validate bespoke PCBs from schematic through to hands-on bring-up, covering power, digital, and mixed-signal electronics, using tools such as Altium Designer or KiCad.
- Define the electrical architecture of UAV platforms, producing wiring diagrams, power distribution schemes, and interface definitions that underpin system integration across mechanical, software, and avionics boundaries.
- Select and specify components across sensors, actuators, controllers, and power systems, trading off performance, cost, availability, and integration effort to make well-reasoned, documented design decisions.
- Integrate communication interfaces such as CAN Bus, Ethernet, and RS422/485, and support RF and radio systems, ensuring robust data and power distribution across the platform.
- Define and execute unit-level tests, contribute to reliability and safety analyses such as FMEA, and produce clear design documentation including wiring diagrams, schematics, PCB layouts, and BOM.
Requirements
- Have designed and integrated electrical and electronic systems in a professional engineering context, ideally within aerospace or a similarly demanding domain.
- Are proficient in PCB design and layout, with hands-on experience using ECAD tools such as Altium Designer or KiCad and simulation tools such as LTSpice.
- Can interpret complex third-party datasheets and technical documentation, translating electrical characteristics and constraints into sound, well-reasoned design decisions.
- Have experience designing cable harnesses and defining communication interfaces, and have worked with RF or radio systems in a hardware integration context.
- Collaborate effectively across mechanical, software, and systems engineering disciplines, and communicate clearly in written and spoken English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with ECAD/MCAD co-design workflows and the integration of electrical systems into complex electromechanical assemblies.
- Contributed to reliability or safety analyses such as FMEA in a production or pre-production engineering context.
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
- A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”)