# System Engineer - System Architecture - Contra

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System-of-Systems at Helsing, you will own the high-level architecture of a distributed air defence capability. Helsing is a defence AI company with a mission to protect democracies through technological leadership.

## Responsibilities

- Own the top-level (L0/L1) architecture of the C-UAS system-of-systems, partitioning the mission into network, sensor, and effector subsystems

- Specify the network capabilities that let distributed nodes share a common air picture and coordinate engagements, including decentralised operation when the central command node is degraded or absent

- Derive network, sensor, and effector requirements from the operational concept, and own the trade-offs between coverage, resilience, latency, and cost

- Translate operational concepts into a coherent system architecture and clear engagement concepts, then hold that architecture consistent as the design matures

- Keep the architecture open and hardware agnostic, establishing the interfaces that let any qualified node join the network

- Enable engage-on-remote and launch-on-remote by defining how cueing, track handover, and fire control flow across nodes

- Produce a structured architecture that can be exposed externally to partners and customers at the right level of abstraction, without disclosing sensitive detail

- Collaborate daily with the situational awareness and interceptor integration teams, and with AI, software, and hardware engineers, to keep the system-of-systems coherent

## Requirements

- Hands-on experience architecting distributed systems or systems-of-systems, ideally for defence, air defence, C-UAS, or comparable networked mission systems

- Ability to define top-level architectures and derive network, sensor, and effector requirements from an operational concept

- Understanding of distributed and decentralised system design: how nodes share state, degrade gracefully, and coordinate without a single point of failure

- Strong foundation in requirements management and interface definition

- Ability to communicate an architecture clearly to both internal engineering teams and external partners and customers

- University degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or a related field

- Business fluency in German and English

- Willingness to travel

- Personal values that match Helsing's: ownership, initiative, dedication to mission, speed, and inclusiveness

## Nice to Have

- Working knowledge of tactical networking, mesh communications, or resilient data links in contested environments

- Familiarity with air defence engagement concepts, kill-chain design, or NATO C-UAS framework

## 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

- Hands-on onboarding program

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## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- systems-of-systems
- defence
- air defence
- C-UAS
- networked mission systems
- top-level architectures
- requirements management
- interface definition
- German
- English

### Nice to have
- tactical networking
- mesh communications
- resilient data links
- air defence engagement concepts
- kill-chain design
- NATO C-UAS framework

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