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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\nYou will build the simulation environments that support mission analysis for large satellite constellations, across hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop. These environments let us test constellation software and real hardware on the ground, at pace, before anything reaches orbit. Engineering and programme decisions rest on them, so they must run fast, state their limits honestly, and earn the trust of the people who depend on them.\nYou will also contribute to mission and system design, and work with partners and suppliers whose models, hardware, and interfaces sit inside the same simulation.\nThe day-to-day\nBuild and maintain the simulation environments behind large constellation mission analysis.\n\nBuild hardware-in-the-loop rigs with real hardware in the loop, for example a flight computer or payload controller, and software-in-the-loop environments wired into our automated test and release pipelines.\n\nModel the relevant physics, for example orbital and attitude dynamics, sensors, actuators, thermal behaviour, and RF links, at the fidelity each question demands. Validate those models against test and flight data.\n\nTurn simulation results into trade studies, requirements evidence, and design recommendations the programme can act on.\n\nWork with partners and suppliers to integrate their models and hardware, agree the expected fidelity, and resolve the discrepancies that surface once everything runs together.\n\nYou should apply if you\nProven delivery of both software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop systems, including real hardware wired into a simulator.\n\nStrong physics and modelling judgement. You can defend a simplification and sense where a model stops being trustworthy.\n\nSeveral years of production-grade software work in a large, shared codebase, with code review, continuous integration, testing, and documentation. Python, plus at least one of Rust or modern C++.\n\nThe ability to architect one environment that serves both fast batch runs and full-fidelity wall-clock validation, including the real-time and scheduling trade-offs involved.\n\nConfidence working across organisational boundaries, holding technical discussions with partners and suppliers, and explaining results, and their limits, to non-specialists.\n\nNote: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.\nNice to Have\nOptimisation background: design-space exploration, Monte Carlo and sensitivity analysis, trajectory or scheduling optimisation, or surrogate models.\n\nSpace domain exposure: orbit propagation, six degrees of freedom attitude dynamics, closed-loop AOCS simulation, or ground station, inter-satellite link, and payload models.\n\nDistributed simulation standards, for example HLA, DIS, or FMI, or GPU and high-performance simulation.\n\nAdjacent dynamic, safety-relevant domains, for example automotive, robotics, or autonomous systems, or consortium programmes involving model exchange between suppliers.\n\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: regularly 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\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. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.\nHelsing's Candidate Privacy and Confidentiality Regime can be found here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6732,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events","Gym membership","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["National Security","Military Drones","Defense AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T08:14:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":50,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.559,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":41,"expected_fill_days":72,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/helsing-simulation-engineer-space-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/helsing-simulation-engineer-space-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T21:48:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6566,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4739},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4739"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhelsing-simulation-engineer-space-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhelsing-simulation-engineer-space-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhelsing-simulation-engineer-space-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/helsing-simulation-engineer-space-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhelsing-simulation-engineer-space-2"}]}