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Product Manager – Perception & Sensor Fusion

Helsing· Market
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MunichFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Product Manager (Air) – Perception & Sensor Fusion responsible for defining the perception software stack for an uncrewed combat aerial vehicle, including EO/IR and RF sensor processing, data fusion, common operating picture, and perception-based navigation in GNSS-denied environments. Owns vision, roadmap, and requirements from concept to flight test, coordinating with engineers, flight test teams, and customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product strategy and roadmap for airborne perception, covering EO/IR and RF sensor processing, multi-level data fusion, situational awareness and perception-aided navigation, so that every release maps to a defined operational capability
  • Translate operational needs, mission threads and customer requirements into product requirements, measurable KPIs and acceptance criteria that engineering and flight test can verify
  • Work closely with perception, fusion, autonomy and navigation engineers to resolve architecture-level trade-offs across performance, latency, bandwidth, SWaP and schedule
  • Define how perception outputs and the common operating picture serve mission autonomy, collaborative operations and the human operator, including how uncertainty is represented and communicated
  • Partner with systems engineering, flight test and safety teams to shape test and evidence strategies, from simulation and hardware-in-the-loop to flight test campaigns
  • Shape the perception data strategy with data and ML infrastructure teams, including collection campaigns, simulation and synthetic data needs
  • Work directly with customers, operational users and partners to gather feedback and run demonstrations, keeping the roadmap anchored in real-world operational value

Qualifications

  • Have shipped sensing, perception or data fusion capabilities as a product manager, technical product owner or systems architect, ideally in aerospace, defence, autonomous vehicles or robotics
  • Understand sensor data processing (EO/IR and/or RF, radar, ESM), multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusion in depth
  • Have taken a complex capability from requirements through integration and test into the field or into flight
  • Turn ambiguous operational or customer needs into structured requirements, metrics and a prioritised roadmap, and decide clearly what not to build
  • Communicate clearly and credibly with engineers, programme leaders, customers and senior military stakeholders, in writing and in person
  • Are eligible to obtain national security clearance and can travel to test sites, customers and partners

Skills

Required:Product management for sensing, perception or data fusionSensor data processing (EO/IR, RF, radar, ESM)Multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusionRequirements to roadmap translationCommunication with engineers and stakeholders

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 Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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