C2 Systems Engineer (Air Defence) – Fielding & Safety

Helsing; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4

Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

Health & wellness: gym membership and

Job summary

Helsing is hiring a Systems Engineer for C2 C-UAS to take the C2 node from prototype to qualified fielded system. You will own the safety case, define safety norms, run hazard analyses, and plan qualification with authorities.

This hands-on role requires coordinating with test centers, developing verification campaigns, and ensuring timely fielding while upholding safety and ethical standards. You will work in a fast software and autonomy team, write safety analyses, and drive evidence

Qualifications

• Have taken a defence or safety-critical system through qualification and into operational use.
• Have hands-on experience with functional safety and system safety for defence or comparable safety-critical systems.
• Written safety cases and hazard analyses for systems with a large software share.
• Know military qualification testing and how long it takes to plan and pass.

Responsibilities

• Own the functional safety case for the C2 node, covering safety-relevant functions from identification through engagement decision to effector control.
• Run hazard analyses and turn their results into safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and verification evidence.
• Build and maintain the norms and approvals map for the C2 node: applicable norms, required evidence, evidence owner, current status, and lead time.
• Plan and run qualification of C2 hardware and software with test centres and authorities.
• Define how the autonomy level per kill-chain step and human approval of engagements are argued in the safety case, and what has to be true before autonomy is raised.
• Write and execute system-level verification and test campaigns in test beds, at test ranges, and in field trials, and close findings through root-cause analysis.
• Specify the safety and interface evidence the C2 node needs from sensor and effector partners, and review their qualification data.
• Prepare fielding: acceptance tests, operational documentation, training input, and support for user approval and handover.

Skills

Functional safety

System safety

Hazard analyses

Requirements management

Test planning

Root-cause analysis

Safety cases

Team collaboration

German & English

Fielding readiness

Education

Systems Engineering / Aerospace / Electrical Eng / CS degree

Job description

Helsing is hiring a Systems Engineer for C2 C-UAS to take the C2 node from prototype to qualified fielded system. You will own the safety case, define safety norms, run hazard analyses, and plan qualification with authorities.

This hands-on role requires coordinating with test centers, developing verification campaigns, and ensuring timely fielding while upholding safety and ethical standards. You will work in a fast software and autonomy team, write safety analyses, and drive evidence