Systems Engineer - System Architecture - Contra

Helsing·London, England, United Kingdom; Munich·Posted 5 November 2026

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Who we are Helsing is a defence AI company. 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. As 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. We 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. The role As a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System-of-Systems, you own the high-level architecture of a distributed air defence capability. You define the top-level architecture (L0 and L1), partitioning the capability into network, sensor, and effector subsystems and the interfaces between them. The architecture is open and hardware agnostic: any qualified node can join the…

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