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Lead Systems Engineer - EO/IR Sensing

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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MunichFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead System Engineer responsible for end-to-end integration of airborne EO/IR sensing, translating mission needs into performance requirements, overseeing verification and test campaigns, and ensuring data integration with the core mission system to deliver a qualified capability.

Responsibilities

  • - Direct system engineering and integration of the airborne EO/IR targeting system to ensure operational readiness
  • - Translate mission needs into specific performance requirements, including detection, recognition, identification ranges, and environmental limits
  • - Define and maintain sensor mode sets and concepts of operations to ensure effective sensor scheduling across mission phases
  • - Integrate target detection, tracking, and classification pipelines by selecting algorithms and tuning thresholds for operational false-alarm tolerance
  • - Ensure robust multi-sensor cueing and seamless data interfaces to mission computers and command systems
  • - Plan and execute verification and test campaigns with a focus on installed sensor performance and objective evidence gathering
  • - Coordinate technical supplier relationships, reviewing specifications, acceptance tests, and algorithm releases to ensure compliance

Qualifications

  • - Hold a degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline
  • - Have delivered EO/IR targeting systems through integration, test, and operational release
  • - Can translate complex mission scenarios into concrete detection, recognition, and identification requirements
  • - Possess practical expertise with sensor mode design and sensor scheduling across various mission phases
  • - Have integrated detection and classification pipelines, including confidence metrics and false-alarm control
  • - Can guide verification and testing processes while debugging issues across imagery, algorithms, and avionics

Skills

Required:Systems engineeringRequirements translationSensor mode design and schedulingAlgorithm integration and tuningVerification and testing leadership

Benefits

  • - 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
Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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