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Lead Systems Engineer - Maritime

Helsing· Systems Architecture
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Hybrid (Germany)€0full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Maritime Systems Engineer responsible for end-to-end design, verification and validation, and seamless integration of maritime capabilities for defence customers, working with engineering teams and subcontractors to meet regulatory and safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design of solutions within the maritime domain
  • Own the Verification and Validation process for the full maritime system, including supplier-delivered components, ensuring all delivered capability is safe, assured, and compliant with relevant industry and defence standards
  • Partner with the Design Engineering and Maritime Field Engineering teams to translate end-user operational experience into refined and improved product requirements, feeding structured feedback into product and technology development cycles
  • Lead the management of subcontractors and external partners, holding them accountable for delivery quality and ensuring seamless integration of critical system elements into the broader programme
  • Act as the primary technical interface for campaigns and customer delivery, maintaining ownership of the capability through and beyond delivery to ensure long-term through-life support requirements are understood and met
  • Navigate the defence procurement landscape to bring maritime systems into service, ensuring Helsing can demonstrate to customers the compliance and safety credentials required for operational deployment

Qualifications

  • Have built and delivered maritime systems in a defence context
  • Have demonstrated the ability to act as a Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (SQEP) in maritime operations, giving customers and stakeholders confidence in system safety and compliance
  • Have managed requirements through the full engineering lifecycle using industry-standard requirement management tools, and can navigate the complexity of a multi-supplier, integrated systems environment
  • Communicate fluently in both German and English, enabling effective collaboration with German-based defence customers and partners alongside Helsing's pan-European engineering teams
  • Have worked within or alongside defence procurement processes, understanding how to bring a product from development through to operational service
  • Build architectures that fulfill customer problem statements from a technical perspective, especially when it comes to interfaces
  • Hands-on experience in MBSE approaches

Skills

Required:Design of maritime solutionsVerification and Validation (V&V)Supplier/contractor managementEnd-to-end lifecycle requirements managementMBSE

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • 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: regularly 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
Last updated Jul 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

AI for electronic warfareAI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systemsAutonomous air dominanceMass defence manufacturingRecce strike softwareUnderwater autonomous massliquid-ai-recruiting-target
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