Environmental Engineer

helsing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Helsing is a defence AI company seeking an Environmental Systems Engineer to own the Manufacture-to-Target-Disposal-Sequence and define system-level environmental requirements, decomposing them to subsystem and equipment levels. You will identify risks early through analysis and de-risking tests, and shape how we prove compliance.

You will develop qualification strategies using new technologies, coordinate with test facilities, supply chain and production, and secure stakeholder agreement to

Qualifications

• Own the Manufacture-to-Target-Disposal-Sequence and decompose environmental requirements to subsystems.
• Identify environmental risks early through analysis and de-risking tests.
• Develop qualification strategies using new technologies and secure stakeholder agreement.
• Coordinate with test facilities, supply chain and production to ensure campaigns hit time, cost and quality.
• Produce environmental evidence statements with traceability for certification.

Responsibilities

• Own the Manufacture-to-Target-Disposal-Sequence, specify weapon system environmental requirements and decompose them to subsystem and equipment level.
• Conduct analysis to identify environmental risks early, supporting design-out through de-risking tests that surface problems before they reach qualification.
• Develop qualification strategies that use new technologies and processes to reduce cost and timescales, and build agreement with the stakeholders who must ratify them.
• Act as technical point of contact for internal and external test facilities, working with supply chain and production so that test hardware is captured in the build schedule and campaigns land on time, on cost and on quality.
• Analyse test results, produce reports against the requirement set, and generate environmental evidence statements with clear traceability for certification.
• Have specified environmental requirements for complex systems and decomposed them to subsystem and equipment level.
• Conduct environmental analysis that identifies risks early and shapes design decisions before qualification.
• Have planned and overseen environmental test campaigns with internal or external facilities, from scope through to reporting.
• Produce evidence and reports that stand up to certification scrutiny, with clear traceability to analysis and test data.
• Work across engineering, supply chain and production teams to agree qualification approaches and keep schedules intact.

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

You will own the environmental definition for our weapon systems, from the Manufacture-to-Target-Disposal-Sequence through to the evidence that supports certification. You will set system-level environmental requirements, decompose them to subsystem and equipment level, and use analysis to find and design out risks early. You will also shape how we prove compliance, developing qualification strategies that use new technologies and methods to cut cost and time, then securing agreement from the stakeholders who depend on them. Working with supply chain, production and test facilities, you will see campaigns delivered on time, on cost and on quality, and help build our environmental engineering capability as it grows.

The day-to-day

• Own the Manufacture-to-Target-Disposal-Sequence, specify weapon system environmental requirements and decompose them to subsystem and equipment level
• Conduct analysis to identify environmental risks early, supporting design-out through de-risking tests that surface problems before they reach qualification
• Develop qualification strategies that use new technologies and processes to reduce cost and timescales, and build agreement with the stakeholders who must ratify them
• Act as technical point of contact for internal and external test facilities, working with supply chain and production so that test hardware is captured in the build schedule and campaigns land on time, on cost and on quality
• Analyse test results, produce reports against the requirement set, and generate environmental evidence statements with clear traceability for certification

• Have specified environmental requirements for complex systems and decomposed them to subsystem and equipment level
• Conduct environmental analysis that identifies risks early and shapes design decisions before qualification
• Have planned and overseen environmental test campaigns with internal or external facilities, from scope through to reporting
• Produce evidence and reports that stand up to certification scrutiny, with clear traceability to analysis and test data
• Work across engineering, supply chain and production teams to agree qualification approaches and keep schedules intact

Nice to Have

• Have introduced novel proving or qualification methods that reduced cost or timescales against a conventional approach
• Have helped grow an engineering capability through lessons learned reviews, process refinement or recruitment

Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields

Helsing's work is important. You'll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns

The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world

Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward

In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not