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