Jobs at Helsing

Leads the accounts payable function and multi-location AP team, owning the full procure-to-pay and expense management lifecycle. Responsibilities include invoice verification, payment runs, vendor master data, reconciliations, accruals, month-end and year-end close, compliance, VAT processes, and supplier escalations. The role also drives AP workflow system implementation, automation, digitization, and development of scalable shared-service operating models.

Develop reliable, mission-critical software and AI capabilities for semi-autonomous platforms operating in complex, changing environments. Engineers solve challenging problems with code, contribute to systems design, collaborate through code reviews and pair programming, and communicate architectural decisions clearly. The role involves technical interviews covering systems design, project deep dives, and live coding. Work may span distributed systems, AI, deployment infrastructure, robotics, and edge applications, with strong emphasis on ethical engineering, independent reasoning, reliability, and safety.

Early-career software engineer developing reliable, mission-critical software and AI-enabled capabilities for semi-autonomous platforms. The role involves solving complex engineering problems, reasoning about system architecture, writing code independently, collaborating through code reviews and pair programming, and communicating technical decisions clearly. Candidates are assessed through a project walkthrough, systems design discussion, live coding, and leadership interview. Experience with Python, Rust, backend interfaces, cloud-native or edge architectures, hardware interfaces, or robotics is beneficial.

Supports Helsing’s leadership team by coordinating high-stakes meetings, executive communications, correspondence, agendas, travel arrangements, and internal scheduling. Serves as a liaison between executives and senior government, industry, and business contacts while prioritizing tasks, resolving scheduling conflicts, and exercising discretion. Requires executive-assistant experience, excellent German and English communication skills, multitasking ability, and professional judgment.

Build and maintain high-fidelity aerospace simulation environments, including vehicle dynamics, aerodynamics, structural, and engagement-level models. Develop Monte Carlo and sensitivity analyses, validate models against test and flight data, support design trade studies and test campaigns, and create simulation tooling for engineering teams. Collaborate with GNC, mechanical, and systems engineers while clearly communicating model credibility, limitations, and probabilistic results.

Design and develop robust UAV hardware from concept through flight-ready builds. Responsibilities include aerodynamic, structural, propulsion, and electronics design; rapid prototyping; component and material selection; hardware validation; bench testing; integration checks; field trials; and technical documentation. The role requires collaboration across engineering disciplines, software and firmware integration, suppliers, and programme teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable autonomous systems.

Design, fabricate, assemble, and field-test flight-ready UAV prototypes. Integrate airframes, wiring harnesses, avionics, power distribution, flight-control platforms, and sensors. Conduct bench, pre-flight, functional, and lifetime testing while analyzing telemetry to refine CAD designs. Collaborate with design and test engineers to resolve integration risks, troubleshoot system anomalies, and maintain a mission-ready developmental drone fleet amid evolving requirements.

Designs and validates electrical systems for UAV platforms, including bespoke PCBs, electrical architectures, wiring diagrams, power distribution, communication interfaces, component selection, and RF integration. Performs prototype bring-up, unit testing, reliability and safety analysis, and produces schematics, PCB layouts, and bills of materials. Collaborates across mechanical, software, systems, and avionics engineering teams to develop robust, field-ready defence technology.

Develop and validate end-to-end guidance, navigation, and control systems for unmanned aircraft. Responsibilities include designing controllers and state estimators, simulating navigation algorithms, analyzing sensor and flight-test data, calibrating sensors, specifying evaluations, and collaborating across aerodynamics, flight mechanics, embedded systems, and testing teams. The role requires advanced engineering expertise, software development skills, and experience applying state-of-the-art navigation research in contested environments.

Lead Helsing’s commercial engagement strategy with UK defence procurement organizations, including the National Armaments Director Group and DE&S. Build senior stakeholder networks, align procurement requirements and timelines, shape defence engagement strategies, represent the company in senior forums, and develop internal frameworks for navigating Ministry of Defence procurement cycles. The role requires bridging government procurement and technology-industry cultures to support major defence programme opportunities.

Ensure reliable, secure, and scalable production software by building automation and CI/CD, implementing monitoring/observability, responding to incidents, troubleshooting and performance tuning, contributing to architecture and code quality, and collaborating with product and operations teams to improve developer experience and compliance.

Manages procurement activities across technical development and customer projects, including sourcing suppliers, aligning procurement with engineering milestones, supporting prototyping and production ramp-up, monitoring supplier performance, and maintaining cost, quality, and delivery targets. The role coordinates engineering, production, supply chain, and external partners while contributing to supplier negotiations, risk management, and qualified supplier-base development.

Owns military flight test programs from planning, risk assessment, and safety case development through live execution and reporting. Leads complex ground and flight test campaigns, including international live-fire exercises, and validates procedures for weapons, sensors, and mission systems. Coordinates engineering teams, test pilots, and armed forces partners while verifying aircraft integration, safety, and mission readiness. May act as Lead Flight Test Engineer when qualified.

Own programme delivery for a next-generation aircraft mission systems programme. Coordinate engineering, product, and programme leadership; translate complex sensor and communication systems requirements into measurable delivery plans; facilitate governance and decision forums; manage external aerospace partnerships; resolve cross-functional friction; and maintain alignment across software, systems engineering, and mission systems teams.

Develop and validate guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for unmanned aircraft systems. Responsibilities include designing controllers and state estimators, simulating navigation performance, calibrating sensors, analyzing flight-test data, executing algorithm evaluations, and collaborating with aerodynamics, flight mechanics, embedded software, hardware, and testing teams.

Manage day-to-day operations of Helsing’s Barcelona office, including facilities, vendors, suppliers, safety compliance, workplace budgets, invoices, and employee events. The role owns service contracts, monitors supplier performance, coordinates risk assessments and emergency procedures under Spanish regulations, and maintains a safe, welcoming workplace. Fluency in Spanish and English is required; Catalan, vendor networks, and office move or refurbishment experience are preferred.

As a Graphic Designer at Helsing, you will create visual materials for various marketing channels, ensuring brand consistency and high aesthetic quality while managing multiple projects.

Serve as a strategic commercial finance partner to R&D, manufacturing, procurement, and commercial teams. Build and challenge complex business cases, evaluate capital investments, track IRR, NPV, ROIC, and program performance, analyze product and supply-chain economics, support defense bid pricing, and identify margin leakage and cost risks. Present actionable financial recommendations to senior leadership and help optimize capital allocation, manufacturing scale-up, supplier costs, inventory, and working capital.

Lead Helsing’s global FP&A function from the ground up, owning budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, reporting, scenario analysis, and capital allocation. Model advanced manufacturing scale-up, supply-chain dynamics, capital expenditure, and complex defense contracts. Partner with the CEO, CFO, executive team, and Board on financing, growth, and corporate-event planning. Implement global FP&A systems integrated with manufacturing ERP and BI tools, while advancing AI-driven forecasting and reporting.

Lead the redesign and scaling of global People Operations across the employee lifecycle. The role owns process landscapes, service delivery, HRIS data, onboarding, offboarding, payroll inputs, mobility, documentation, automation, controls, and operational metrics. It also develops team capability, clarifies ownership, improves employee self-service, guides AI adoption, and drives continuous improvement across international operations while balancing global consistency with local requirements.