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Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards. \nAs democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously. \nWe are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams - and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications. \nThe role\nWe are developing an advanced airborne platform with an integrated Electronic Attack capability. We are looking for an experienced engineer to lead the technical definition, design assessment, and integration of the jammer payload and its associated antenna system. \n\nYou will work at the intersection of Electronic Warfare, RF engineering, antenna technology, aircraft integration, mission systems, and systems engineering. \nThe day-to-day\nDefine system-level requirements for an airborne jammer payload and its antenna subsystem.\nTranslate operational Electronic Attack needs into measurable technical requirements.\nDevelop and assess payload and antenna integration architectures.\nDefine requirements for: - Frequency coverage and instantaneous bandwidth - Transmit power, EIRP, and antenna gain - Antenna field of regard, beamwidth, and steering performance - Polarisation and radiation patterns - Simultaneous transmit and receive operation - Receiver protection, isolation, and co-site compatibility - Cooling, electrical power, mechanical interfaces, and data interfaces - Payload size, weight, and power consumption - Platform-level electromagnetic compatibility\nAnalyse antenna placement and spatial coverage on the aircraft.\nAssess installation effects such as airframe shadowing, blockage, reflections, mutual coupling, and radiation-pattern distortion.\nEvaluate suitable antenna technologies, including phased-array, AESA, conformal, and distributed antenna concepts.\nDefine and manage interfaces between the jammer, antennas, ESM/RWR sensors, mission computer, navigation system, and other aircraft subsystems.\nPerform technical assessments of jammer, RF, and antenna concepts.\nReview specifications, designs, simulations, test results, and compliance evidence.\nIdentify technical risks, performance gaps, and integration constraints.\nSupport technical design reviews and system architecture decisions.\nDevelop link-budget, coverage, and J/S analyses for representative operational geometries.\nSupport modelling and simulation of jammer performance at mission, system, and platform level.\nDefine verification and validation strategies for the integrated system.\nSupport ground testing, antenna measurements, electromagnetic compatibility testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight-test activities.\nCoordinate closely with aircraft, mission-system, Electronic Warfare, mechanical, electrical, thermal, and software engineering teams.\nYou should apply if you\nDegree in electrical engineering, communications engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.\nSeveral years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas: - Airborne RF systems - Antenna system design - Electronic Warfare or Electronic Attack systems - Radar or communications payloads - RF payload integration\nStrong understanding of antenna parameters, radiation patterns, phased arrays, beam steering, and platform installation effects.\nExperience defining and managing requirements for complex RF, mission, or defence systems.\nFamiliarity with RF link budgets, EIRP, propagation, receiver sensitivity, dynamic range, and interference analysis.\nUnderstanding of jammer-effectiveness metrics such as J/S, burn-through range, effective radiated power, power-on-target, and spatial coverage.\nAbility to assess complete systems rather than focusing only on individual components.\nExperience with airborne-platform integration, environmental qualification, or flight-test activities is highly desirable.\nFamiliarity with electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic interference, antenna coupling, and co-site analysis is desirable.\nStrong analytical, communication, and technical-documentation skills.\nAbility to work across multiple engineering disciplines and communicate effectively with both technical specialists and programme stakeholders. \nJoin Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields \nHelsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns\n\nThe work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world\n\nOur work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward\n\nIn our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts\n\nWe actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about\n\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive salary andVSOP options\n\nRelocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation\n\nLearning: €500/£450 yearly allowance\n\nHealth & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)\n\nSocial: regular company events and monthly social allowances\n\nEnhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers\n\nFamily support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work\n\nA hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company. This is your opportunity to learn our tech stack, explore the company, and learn how we get things done - all whilst working with other engineering teams from day one (Specifically for engineering and AI)\n\nThese are the core benefits across all locations, there may be additional benefits in certain locations.\nHelsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. 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