Systems Engineer (Requirements Manager), Aviation

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 join a team developing a state-of-the-art autonomous system that will shape the future of air combat. As a member of our engineering team, you will own and drive the end-to-end requirements engineering process across both onboard and ground-based systems, from initial customer negotiation through to final product qualification. This involves establishing and maintaining the requirements baseline, managing traceability across all development artefacts, and bridging the gap between customer-level contractual obligations and the software and systems teams delivering them. Your primary impact will be ensuring that every requirement is unambiguous, traceable, testable, and consistently tied to a clear method of compliance. You will collaborate daily with our AI software specialists, systems engineers, V&V specialists, and quality assurance team to guarantee the developed product meets contractual qualification requirements and exceeds customer expectations. The day-to-day Capture, author, and manage system-level requirements for the aircraft and associated ground systems, translating contractual obligations and operational needs into clear, verifiable technical requirements Own and maintain the requirements baseline and traceability matrix, ensuring full bidirectional traceability from customer-level contractual requirements down to software and hardware development artefacts, and up through V&V evidence Negotiate system requirements and Methods of Compliance (MoC), and validate derived requirements in close collaboration with our software and engineering teams Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the requirements management toolchain (DOORS, Polarion, Jama, or equivalent), ensuring seamless integration with MBSE models and the V&V test environment Support and drive the adoption of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches alongside traditional text-based requirements, pragmatically bridging the two to suit programme needs Define and enforce requirements quality standards, ensuring all requirements are verifiable, unambiguous, and appropriately allocated to system components and sub-systems Conduct regular requirements review boards with systems engineering, software, and V&V teams to jointly develop impact assessments for proposed requirement changes and manage the change control process Prepare requirements-related documentation to meet compliance and certification standards (ARP4754A), providing regular status updates to engineering and programme management teams You should apply if you Demonstrate practical competence in managing requirements for the development of automotive, avionics or electronic warfare systems, from initial customer negotiation to final qualification Utilise requirements management tooling: DOORS, Polarion, Jama, or equivalent and have integrated these tools within a broader systems engineering and V&V toolchain Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies using tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or Enterprise Architect (SysML/UML), pragmatically combining MBSE with natural language requirements approaches Translate high-level stakeholder needs into