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Senior Systems Engineer – EA Antenna & Payload Design

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Hybrid (Berlin)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer responsible for leading technical definition, design assessment, and integration of an airborne jammer payload and its associated antenna system within an advanced airborne platform with integrated Electronic Attack capability.

Responsibilities

  • Define system-level requirements for an airborne jammer payload and its antenna subsystem.
  • Translate operational Electronic Attack needs into measurable technical requirements.
  • Develop and assess payload and antenna integration architectures.
  • Define requirements for: frequency coverage and instantaneous bandwidth; transmit power, EIRP, and antenna gain; antenna field of regard, beamwidth, and steering performance; polarisation and radiation patterns; simultaneous transmit and receive operation; receiver protection, isolation, and co-site compatibility; cooling, electrical power, mechanical interfaces, and data interfaces; payload size, weight, and power consumption; platform-level electromagnetic compatibility.
  • Analyse antenna placement and spatial coverage on the aircraft.
  • Assess installation effects such as airframe shadowing, blockage, reflections, mutual coupling, and radiation-pattern distortion.
  • Evaluate suitable antenna technologies, including phased-array, AESA, conformal, and distributed antenna concepts.
  • Define and manage interfaces between the jammer, antennas, ESM/RWR sensors, mission computer, navigation system, and other aircraft subsystems.
  • Perform technical assessments of jammer, RF, and antenna concepts.
  • Review specifications, designs, simulations, test results, and compliance evidence.
  • Identify technical risks, performance gaps, and integration constraints.
  • Support technical design reviews and system architecture decisions.
  • Develop link-budget, coverage, and J/S analyses for representative operational geometries.
  • Support modelling and simulation of jammer performance at mission, system, and platform level.
  • Define verification and validation strategies for the integrated system.
  • Support ground testing, antenna measurements, electromagnetic compatibility testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight-test activities.
  • Coordinate closely with aircraft, mission-system, Electronic Warfare, mechanical, electrical, thermal, and software engineering teams.

Qualifications

  • Degree in electrical engineering, communications engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
  • Several years of professional experience in one or more: Airborne RF systems; Antenna system design; Electronic Warfare or Electronic Attack systems; Radar or communications payloads; RF payload integration.
  • Strong understanding of antenna parameters, radiation patterns, phased arrays, beam steering, and platform installation effects.
  • Experience defining and managing requirements for complex RF, mission, or defence systems.
  • Familiarity with RF link budgets, EIRP, propagation, receiver sensitivity, dynamic range, and interference analysis.
  • Understanding of jammer-effectiveness metrics such as J/S, burn-through range, effective radiated power, power-on-target, and spatial coverage.
  • Ability to assess complete systems rather than focusing only on individual components.
  • Experience with airborne-platform integration, environmental qualification, or flight-test activities is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic interference, antenna coupling, and co-site analysis is desirable.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and technical-documentation skills.
  • Ability to work across multiple engineering disciplines and communicate effectively with both technical specialists and programme stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Airborne RF systemsAntenna design and analysisSystem requirements engineering

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: 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
  • Hands-on onboarding program (Infraduction) for engineers and AI teams
Last updated Jul 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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