# Test Engineer - Environmental

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

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Test Engineer - Environmental at Helsing, you will be responsible for designing, executing, and analysing environmental stress test campaigns across various subsystems and Ground Support Equipment (GSE).

## Company Background

Helsing is a defence AI company that aims to protect democracies through technological leadership.

## Responsibilities

As an Environment Test Engineer, you will:

- Design and execute vibration test campaigns to simulate transport, operational, and launch-induced dynamic environments.

- Conduct thermal soak and cycling tests across the full operational temperature range.

- Perform IP and ingress testing to validate field survivability.

- Run humidity-controlled and salt-spray campaigns to identify corrosion risks.

- Validate component behaviour under simulated low-pressure conditions.

- Characterize material and joint fatigue over the required operational life.

- Deliberately push hardware beyond its design limits to physically map the failure envelope and validate safety margins.

## Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should have:

- Working knowledge of applicable environmental test standards.

- Expertise in physical instrumentation and DAQ systems.

- Solid understanding of structural mechanics, material fatigue, vibration dynamics, and shock response.

- Experience with thermal testing and environmental test equipment operation.

- Proficiency with precision measurement tools.

- Awareness of ITAR/EAR export control obligations.

## Nice to Have

- Experience testing UAVs, UAS, or rockets.

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

- Direct experience with environmental chamber operation, vibration testing, and physical instrumentation.

- Prior exposure to defense, dual-use, or regulated hardware in a test context.

- Basic familiarity with Weapons Hardware Constraints.

- Experience in an aerospace or defense environment operating under ITAR/EAR or equivalent national defense export control frameworks.

## 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

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## Skills

### Required
- Environmental Standards Literacy
- Instrumentation & DAQ
- Mechanical Systems Understanding
- Thermal Testing
- Environmental Test Equipment Operation
- Metrology

### Nice to have
- Experience testing UAV's, UAS' or Rockets
- Bachelor's degree (B.Sc. or B.Eng.) in a relevant engineering discipline
- Direct experience with environmental chamber operation, vibration testing, and physical instrumentation
- Prior exposure to defense, dual-use, or regulated hardware in a test context
- Basic familiarity with Weapons Hardware Constraints

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