# Systems Engineer - Interceptors

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: London
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Systems Engineer, Interceptors, you will shape the system architecture and requirements for AD-1 Inferno, Helsing's jet-powered interceptor within the Contra air defence system. You will translate stakeholder needs and the threat environment into a coherent system concept, then develop the requirements, architecture and evidence needed to support testing, certification and production.

## Responsibilities

- Elicit needs from internal and external stakeholders, assess the threat environment and maintain a coherent concept of operations for the weapon system

- Develop and maintain the configured JAMA requirements baseline across the weapon system, subsystems and equipment, ensuring requirements are unambiguous, verifiable, linked and justified

- Conduct trade studies and analysis to decompose requirements and allocate performance parameters, while developing logical and functional architectures using model-based systems engineering (MBSE)

- Own interface control documents and define the verification and validation strategy, including design verification plans that set out how compliance will be demonstrated

- Coordinate certification and safety activities, including compliance matrices, proving evidence, final compliance documentation and the weapon system safety case, while capturing maintainability, testability, training, software upgradeability and growth margins

## Requirements

- Translate stakeholder needs, operational concepts and threat information into clear system requirements

- Develop and maintain requirements baselines and traceability across complex systems, using tools such as JAMA

- Apply systems engineering methods, including trade studies, requirements decomposition and MBSE architecture development

- Plan verification, validation and certification activities, and compile clear evidence of compliance

- Work effectively with engineering, safety, security, proving and production teams, and communicate fluently in English

## Nice to Have

- Contributed to a weapon system safety case or certification against defence and national standards

- Developed or applied new systems engineering approaches to support the development and certification of complex, low-cost systems

## 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: regularly 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
- systems engineering
- model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
- JAMA
- trade studies
- requirements decomposition
- verification and validation

### Nice to have
- weapon system safety case
- certification against defence and national standards
- new systems engineering approaches

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