(Senior) Requirements Engineer, Physical Products

EngineersOfAI; München; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

EngineersOfAI is seeking a Requirements Engineer for Physical Products to manage the requirements for a range of autonomous drone systems and defence platforms. This role involves translating operational needs into clear specifications and ensuring traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in requirements management, excellent collaboration skills, and the ability to work across multiple engineering disciplines. Join our mission-driven team in Munich to contribute to ethical technology development.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of requirements management processes.
• Ability to translate operational needs into clear specifications.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the full requirements lifecycle across all physical product lines.
• Establish and maintain full requirements traceability.
• Lead requirements workshops with diverse teams.

Job description

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 Requirements Engineer for Physical Products, you will own the end-to-end requirements process across Helsing's portfolio of autonomous drone systems, loitering munitions and ground-based defence platforms. Working across systems, mechanical, electrical, software and AI disciplines, you will translate operational needs and regulatory obligations into unambiguous, verifiable specifications and maintain full traceability from mission concept through to verification.

The day-to-day

• Own the full requirements lifecycle across all physical product lines, eliciting, structuring, decomposing and allocating requirements from operational concept through to sub-system level, and governing change management with rigorous baseline integrity and clear communication to all affected engineering disciplines.

• Establish and maintain full requirements traceability from mission need through system architecture and sub-system design to individual verification and validation activities, maintaining an auditable baseline that gives engineering teams and external stakeholders verifiable confidence in product compliance at every programme milestone.

• Lead requirements workshops and