Description
Job Overview
As Helsing expands its maritime portfolio, you will play a crucial role in delivering assured, safe, and compliant systems to defence customers as a Lead Systems Engineer - Maritime. Based in Germany, you will bridge product development and customer delivery, providing technical authority to give customers confidence in Helsing's maritime solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own the design of solutions within the maritime domain.
- Own the Verification and Validation process for the full maritime system, ensuring all delivered capability is safe, assured, and compliant with relevant industry and defence standards.
- Partner with engineering teams to translate end-user operational experience into refined product requirements.
- Lead the management of subcontractors and external partners, ensuring seamless integration of critical system elements.
- Act as the primary technical interface for campaigns and customer delivery, maintaining ownership of the capability through and beyond delivery.
- Navigate the defence procurement landscape to bring maritime systems into service, ensuring Helsing demonstrates compliance and safety credentials.
Requirements
- Experience in building and delivering maritime systems in a defence context.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (SQEP) in maritime operations.
- Proficiency in managing requirements through the full engineering lifecycle using industry-standard requirement management tools.
- Fluency in both German and English.
- Experience working within or alongside defence procurement processes.
- Ability to build architectures that fulfill customer problem statements from a technical perspective.
- Hands-on experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches.
Nice to Have
- Experience across wider maritime defence domains, such as anti-submarine warfare (ASW), above-water warfare (AWW), or mine countermeasures (MCM).
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or actively working towards it.
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.