About the Position

Lead Systems Engineer - LO Emission Control & RF Interoperability

Munich, Germany

About Us

Helsing is a defence AI company dedicated to protecting our democracies. Our mission is to achieve technological leadership, ensuring open societies can make sovereign decisions and uphold ethical standards. We take our responsibility in developing and deploying powerful technologies like AI seriously.

We are a committed team of engineers, AI specialists, and programme managers. We seek mission-driven individuals to join our European teams and solve complex problems. Our culture is open and transparent, encouraging healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and ethical implications.

Responsibilities

Design and manage emission control and RF deconfliction for the overall system, including airborne platforms and ground components
Ensure daily RF interoperability across airborne payloads, such as AESA radars and datalinks, to guarantee co-existence without mutual degradation
Plan and execute comprehensive EMC/EMI co-site assessments, providing clear mitigation recommendations for desense risks and harmonic management
Define frequency plans, channelisation, and emission control profiles tailored to specific mission phases
Establish signature-aware operation concepts, including passive-first tactics and sensor management to substantially reduce detectability
Develop robust integration concepts for antenna placement, isolation, and cable routing that meet rigorous performance and platform constraints
Ensure communications and sensing systems operate resiliently under contested electronic warfare conditions, analysing fallback modes and graceful degradation
Coordinate collaboratively with structural teams to ensure RF designs support low observability and manage unintended emissions via targeted shielding and filtering
Execute requirements traceability from platform-level performance goals to subsystem specifications and robust verification evidence
Guide cross-functional issue resolution and manage critical supplier technical exchanges to ensure full compliance with platform standards

Requirements

Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline
Experience delivering RF and EMC co-site interoperability solutions on complex airborne platforms
Practical expertise with multi-sensor RF integration, encompassing AESA radar, datalinks, and electronic support measures
Ability to execute comprehensive interference and intermodulation analyses, translating results into practical mitigations such as filtering and blanking
Experience building and executing testing campaigns across laboratory and flight environments to reliably correlate models with physical data
Understanding of antenna placement trade-offs and ability to guide designs collaboratively with airframe structures teams

Nice to Have

Proactive low-observability and signature-management mindset, including practical experience with LPI/LPD concepts
Fluency in translating requirements into verification outcomes within a regulated aerospace environment
Experience leading technical closure with suppliers to drive corrective actions to verified outcomes

We Offer

Competitive salary and VSOP options
Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
Health and 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 and 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

About the Company

Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields. Your work will directly contribute to the protection of democratic countries while balancing ethical and geopolitical concerns. We operate in a domain with highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world.

Our work frequently takes us 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 are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward.

In 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.

We 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.

Note: 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.

Helsing 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.

Helsing's Candidate Privacy and Confidentiality Regime can be found here.

Lead Systems Engineer - LO Emission Control & RF Interoperability

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