(Senior) Requirements Engineer, Physical Products

About the role

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. As Requirements Engineer for Physical Products, you will own the end-to-end requirements process across Helsing's portfolio of autonomous drone systems, loitering munitions and ground-based defence platforms. Working across systems, mechanical, electrical, software and AI disciplines, you will translate operational needs and regulatory obligations into unambiguous, verifiable specifications and maintain full traceability from mission concept through to verification. 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 directi on 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.

Requirements

• 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 t

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