Who we are

The role

The day-to-day

• Own the full requirements lifecycle across all physical product lines, eliciting, structuring, decomposing and allocating requirements from operational concept through to sub-system level, and governing change management with rigorous baseline integrity and clear communication to all affected engineering disciplines 

• Establish and maintain full requirements traceability from mission need through system architecture and sub-system design to individual verification and validation activities, maintaining an auditable baseline that gives engineering teams and external stakeholders verifiable confidence in product compliance at every programme milestone 

• Lead requirements workshops and structured design review sessions with customers, product managers, systems engineers and regulatory bodies, surfacing conflicting needs early and driving them to resolution before they propagate into design and incur corrective cost 

• Define verification methods for each requirement in close collaboration with systems and test engineers, ensuring that every requirement is provably satisfied before product delivery and that requirements-driven risk identification is embedded across the development lifecycle 

• Establish and continuously improve requirements management processes, tooling standards and best practices across the engineering organisation, mentoring engineers on requirements methods and evolving process maturity in collaboration with the Head of System Engineering 

You should apply if you

• Have owned end-to-end requirements engineering within complex, multidisciplinary system development programmes in defence, aerospace, robotics or a similarly regulated domain, demonstrating the ability to maintain baseline integrity from concept elicitation through to verification and delivery 

• Are proficient in requirements management tools such as DOORS, Polarion, Jama Connect or Codebeamer, and have applied MBSE techniques using SysML or equivalent to structure requirements within system models 

• Have translated informal, ambiguous stakeholder inputs into precise, testable engineering specifications, applying familiarity with standards such as ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-160, MIL-STD-810 or AS9100 to ensure compliance in safety-critical development contexts 

• Can engage with sufficient technical depth across embedded systems, sensor fusion and control algorithm domains to author and validate requirements at the system and sub-system boundary, without requiring engineering intermediaries 

• Act decisively with minimal guidance, own outcomes end-to-end and initiate solutions without waiting for direction 
  
  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.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with safety-critical or security-critical system certification processes such as ARP4754A, IEC 61508 or DO-178C, or experience with STANAG standards, NATO interoperability frameworks, or German and European defence procurement frameworks including BAAINBw and AQAP 
• Experience adapting requirements management processes to Agile hardware and software co-development frameworks, including requirements decomposition within iterative sprint cycles across multidisciplinary teams 

Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields 

• Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns

• The 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

• Our 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

• 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

What we offer

• 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

• A 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 

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.