Systems Engineer - Interceptors

As a Systems Engineer for Interceptors, you shape the architecture and requirements for Helsing's AD-1 Inferno jet-powered interceptor within the Contra air defence system. You translate threat insights into a coherent concept and drive MBSE-based design, verification, and safety considerations. You collaborate across engineering, safety, proving, and production to enable testing, certification, and through-life support. This role offers the chance to impact high-stakes defence tech at scale in a mission-driven team.

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support
• Learning allowance
• Gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Parental leave
• Remote work option during pregnancy

• Elicit needs from stakeholders, assess threat environment, and maintain a coherent concept of operations
• Develop and maintain the configured JAMA requirements baseline across the system and subsystems
• Perform trade studies and decompositions to allocate performance parameters and create MBSE architectures
• Own interface control documents and define verification/validation strategy and design verification plans
• Coordinate certification and safety activities, assemble compliance evidence, and develop safety cases
• Capture maintainability, testability, training, software upgradeability, and growth margins
• Collaborate with engineering, safety, security, proving and production teams and communicate in English

• Translate stakeholder needs and threat information into clear system requirements
• Maintain requirements baselines and traceability across complex systems using JAMA
• Apply systems engineering methods: trade studies, requirements decomposition, MBSE
• Plan verification, validation and certification activities with clear evidence of compliance
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver on project goals

• cross-functional collaboration
• clear communication in English
• analytical thinking
• model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
• requirements decomposition
• trade studies