Avionics Hardware Engineer

Who we are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

The role

As Avionic Hardware Engineer, you will own the integration of avionic systems onto Helsing's drone platforms, working across architecture, component selection, hardware and software integration, flight testing and series production. Working across hardware and software boundaries with equal confidence, you will drive fault isolation, requirements traceability and production scalability.

The day-to-day

• Contribute to avionic system architecture decisions and LRU selection from the start of the design cycle, providing integration and production feasibility input that directly shapes component choices, system topology and scalability from prototype to series production

• Integrate avionic LRUs onto the airframe, including mounting, harness routing, connector mating and configuration management, and collaborate with software engineers on hardware and software integration covering board bring-up, firmware flashing, interface verification and debug

• Perform system-level fault isolation across hardware, software and mechanical boundaries using schematics, ICDs, logic analysers and oscilloscopes, managing non-conformances and root cause analyses and driving corrective actions to verified closure

• Develop and execute integration and acceptance test procedures with full traceability to system and LRU-level requirements, supporting ground and flight test campaigns with hands-on troubleshooting in real time

• Own the serialisation and