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Senior Systems Engineer – Combat Aircraft (Security)

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Munichfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer specialized in Product Security, Cryptography and Cyber responsible for defining and governing the security architecture of Helsing's CA-1 combat aircraft platform, including requirements, design, compliance artefacts, and platform-level cryptographic management; requires direct interaction with customers and German national security authorities.

Responsibilities

  • Guide hardware and software design teams through security requirements specification and architectural decisions, ensuring compliance with national and NATO-level security regulations across the CA-1 programme
  • Develop and own the aircraft-level security concept, derived from applicable rules, regulations and standards, and maintain it as the authoritative reference across the programme
  • Define and implement engineering design processes applicable to product security, establishing repeatable, auditable workflows that can scale with the programme
  • Create and maintain the compliance artefacts required by national and NATO security authorities, ensuring Helsing's security posture is demonstrable and defensible at all stages of delivery
  • Design the security architecture for intra- and inter-vehicle communications, covering both on-board and off-board interfaces across the platform
  • Develop the design concept for aircraft-level security functions, including erase and zeroise, ensuring operational integrity under all mission conditions
  • Conduct vulnerability analysis and adversarial testing on platform systems, translating findings into actionable engineering mitigations
  • Define the platform cryptographic management concept, including crypto key management architecture and lifecycle processes
  • Engage directly with defence customers — including the Bundeswehr and other national authorities — to capture requirements, present solutions, and represent Helsing's security engineering capability with authority

Qualifications

  • Have designed and delivered end-to-end security architectures for military or defence-grade systems, spanning requirements, system design and compliance evidence
  • Understand and can apply NATO security standards and national-level regulations — including relevant STANAGs and German national security frameworks — to engineering programmes
  • Have developed cryptographic management concepts for complex platforms, including crypto key management design and lifecycle governance
  • Have conducted structured vulnerability analysis and adversarial threat assessments on safety- or mission-critical networked systems
  • Have defined communication security designs for intra- and inter-platform data exchange in a defence or government context
  • Are professionally fluent in German, with the ability to engage with national security authorities, regulators and customers in technical and formal settings

Skills

Required:Security requirements specificationSecurity compliance and regulatory artefactsThreat modelling and vulnerability analysisCryptographic key management

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • VSOP options
  • Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
  • Learning allowance: €500/£450 yearly
  • 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
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Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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