Systems Architect - C-UAS & Distributed Defense Network

Helsing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Health & wellness

Parental leave

Remote work during pregnancy

Onboarding program

Job summary

Helsing in London seeks a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System-of-Systems to own the top-level architecture and define L0/L1. You will partition into network, sensor, and effector subsystems, ensure hardware-agnostic interfaces, and maintain coherence across evolving designs.

You will collaborate daily with AI, software, and hardware engineers, translate operational concepts into architecture, and help enable engage-on-remote and launch-on-remote capabilities in a distributed, robust system.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience architecting distributed systems or systems-of-systems, ideally for defence or similar networks.
• Ability to define top-level architectures and derive network, sensor, and effector requirements from an operational concept.
• Strong foundations in requirements management and interface definition.

Responsibilities

• Own the top-level (L0/L1) architecture of the C-UAS system-of-systems, partitioning into network, sensor, and effector subsystems.
• Specify network capabilities for distributed nodes to share a common air picture and coordinate engagements, including decentralised operation when central command is degraded.
• Derive requirements from operational concepts and balance coverage, resilience, latency, and cost.
• Translate concepts into a coherent architecture and maintain consistency as the design matures.
• Keep architecture open and hardware agnostic with clear interfaces for any qualified node.
• Enable engage-on-remote and launch-on-remote by defining cueing, track handover, and fire-control flow across nodes.
• Produce a structured architecture exposable to partners and customers at appropriate abstraction levels.
• Collaborate with situational awareness, interceptor integration, AI, software, and hardware teams to maintain system coherence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture

Requirements management

Interface definition

English fluency

German fluency

Willing to travel

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Systems Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Aerospace / Computer Science

Job description

Helsing in London seeks a Systems Engineer for C-UAS System-of-Systems to own the top-level architecture and define L0/L1. You will partition into network, sensor, and effector subsystems, ensure hardware-agnostic interfaces, and maintain coherence across evolving designs.

You will collaborate daily with AI, software, and hardware engineers, translate operational concepts into architecture, and help enable engage-on-remote and launch-on-remote capabilities in a distributed, robust system.