Systems Engineer - Weapon Integration
Helsing· Systems Architecture
Munich, GermanyFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Systems Engineer for Weapon Integration responsible for end-to-end integration of weapon systems with aircraft platforms, providing technical authority, guiding a team of engineers, and delivering weapon integration capabilities across multiple domains.
Responsibilities
- Own the weapon integration programme across all relevant domains, delivering a coherent system-of-systems that meets agreed performance, safety and schedule commitments
- Define and maintain the weapon integration roadmap, taking capabilities from concept definition through ground test, flight test and final qualification
- Integrate weapons with the aircraft's mission system and avionics architecture, covering data buses, stores management, software interfaces and safe-separation requirements
- Author the technical specifications, interface control documents (ICDs) and statements of work that govern delivery by internal teams, suppliers and subcontractors
- Shape the verification and validation strategy, and mentor engineers across the team so that integration knowledge is shared rather than concentrated
Qualifications
- Have integrated weapons such as missiles, bombs or rockets onto fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, and seen that capability through to qualification
- Understand mission systems, avionic architectures and the data bus and stores-management standards that connect them, including MIL-STD-1760 or equivalent
- Have worked across the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements capture through verification to in-service support
- Use engineering tools for requirements management, modelling and simulation as part of your everyday practice
- Communicate technical findings clearly to colleagues, customers and suppliers, in writing and in person
- Meet the conditions for an extended German security clearance (Ü2/Ü3), given the sensitive nature of the programme, and communicate comfortably in English and German as the working language
Skills
Required:Weapon integration leadershipMission systems and avionics integrationTechnical documentationVerification and validation strategyRequirements management and modelling toolsCommunication
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 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
Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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