Test and Evaluation Engineer

EngineersOfAI; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. Helsing seeks an engineer to join our hardware and platform integration team, focusing on testing, validation, and evaluation of UAV systems and AI-enabled flight capabilities across SIL, HIL, and field trials.

You will troubleshoot in the dirt, under rain, or in electromagnetically challenging environments to ensure reliability and absolute safety when it matters most.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale rigorous test and evaluation (T&E) pipelines for our autonomous UAV fleet, encompassing physical hardware, flight controllers, communication and sensor payloads, and AI edge-perception models.
• Own planning and execution of Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) analysis to stress-test subsystem integrations and real-time software prior to physical flight.

Job description

Who we are

Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies.We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitio u s and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.

The role

In this role, you will be part of our hardware and platform integration team, focusing on the rigorous testing, validation, and evaluation of our Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems and AI-enabled flight capabilities. Your mission will span the complete development and deployment cycle: from laboratory-based software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations to demanding field trials under real-world, degraded, and adversarial conditions.

You will be an engineer who is not afraid to troubleshoot systems in the dirt, under rain, or in electromagnetically challenging environments, ensuring our platforms perform with extreme reliability and absolute safety when it matters most.

The day-to-day

• Design, build, and scale rigorous test and evaluation (T&E) pipelines for our autonomous UAV fleet, encompassing physical hardware, flight controllers, communication and sensor payloads, and AI edge-perception models.

• Own planning and execution of Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) analysis to stress-test subsystem integrations and real-time software prior to physical flight.

• Organize, coordinate, and execute fli