Senior Systems Architect – C-UAS & Distributed Defense

Helsing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Gym membership

Mental health support

Social events

Parental leave

Remote work during pregnancy

Infraduction onboarding

Job summary

Helsing is seeking a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System‑of‑Systems in the United Kingdom. You will own the high-level architecture across network, sensor, and effector subsystems, ensuring openness and resilience even when nodes are degraded.

This role requires thinking at the whole-system level and coordinating with AI, software, and hardware teams. You should bring hands-on experience in distributed systems, strong requirements discipline, and the ability to articulate architectural decisions

Qualifications

• Experience architecting distributed or systems‑of‑systems, preferably for defence.
• Able to derive network, sensor and effector requirements from operational concepts.
• Understand decentralised design and graceful degradation.
• Communicate architecture clearly to internal teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Own top-level architecture (L0/L1) for the C-UAS system‑of‑systems.
• Specify network capabilities for distributed nodes sharing a common air picture.
• Derive requirements and trade-offs for coverage, resilience, latency, and cost.
• Translate operational concepts into a coherent architecture and ensure consistency as design evolves.
• Collaborate with AI, software, and hardware teams to keep the system coherent.

Skills

Distributed architecture

Systems-of-systems design

Defence domain knowledge

Requirements management

Interface definition

German & English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems/Electrical/Aerospace/CS or related field

Job description

Helsing is seeking a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System‑of‑Systems in the United Kingdom. You will own the high-level architecture across network, sensor, and effector subsystems, ensuring openness and resilience even when nodes are degraded.

This role requires thinking at the whole-system level and coordinating with AI, software, and hardware teams. You should bring hands-on experience in distributed systems, strong requirements discipline, and the ability to articulate architectural decisions