# Senior Flight Test Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Senior Flight Test Engineer at Helsing, you will take ownership of military flight test programmes, serving as the critical bridge between advanced AI-enabled systems and live military aircraft.

## Responsibilities

- Take overarching accountability for Helsing's flight test programmes, leading from initial planning, risk assessment, and safety case development through to execution and formal reporting.

- Design and conduct rigorous military ground and flight test campaigns, including large-scale programmes on international military ranges involving live weapon firings.

- Author and validate comprehensive ground procedures and flight test cards for advanced military systems.

- Lead on-aircraft ground testing of military systems to verify integration integrity, confirm safety standards, and establish mission readiness ahead of flight operations.

- Collaborate with engineering teams, test pilots, and the Lead Flight Test Engineer throughout flight test operations.

## Requirements

- Built a career in the flight testing of fast-jet or advanced military aircraft, with substantive hands-on programme experience across the full test lifecycle.

- Deep expertise across complex military systems, including weapon integration, mission systems, military sensors, and tactical data links.

- Planned, led, and delivered complex, multi-stakeholder flight test campaigns, including those conducted in international or live-fire environments.

- Approach flight safety with absolute rigour whilst maintaining operational urgency.

- Communicate with clarity and precision across engineering, flight crew, and senior military stakeholder audiences.

## Nice to Have

- Graduated as a Flight Test Engineer or Test Pilot from an internationally recognised Test Pilot School, or hold an EASA Lead Flight Test Engineer (L-FTE) Category 1 qualification.

- Worked within or alongside European armed forces or NATO partner organisations on integrated flight test programmes.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Flight Test Engineering
- Military Systems
- AI-enabled Systems
- Safety Planning
- Test Campaigns

### Nice to have
- EASA Lead Flight Test Engineer (L-FTE) Category 1 qualification
- Experience with European armed forces or NATO partner organisations

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