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.