Product Manager – Perception & Sensor Fusion - Air

The role

You will own the product vision and roadmap for the full perception software stack for uncrewed combat aerial vehicles. You will translate mission needs into requirements and work with engineers and flight test teams to deliver capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for airborne perception
• Translate operational needs and customer requirements into product requirements and KPIs
• Work with perception, fusion, autonomy and navigation engineers to resolve architecture trade-offs
• Define how perception outputs serve mission autonomy and the human operator
• Partner with systems engineering, flight test and safety teams to shape test strategies
• Shape the perception data strategy with data and ML infrastructure teams
• Work directly with customers, operational users and partners to gather feedback and run demonstrations

Required qualifications

• Have shipped sensing, perception or data fusion capabilities as a product manager, technical product owner or systems architect
• Understand sensor data processing (EO/IR and/or RF, radar, ESM), multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusion in depth
• Have taken a complex capability from requirements through integration and test into the field or into flight
• Turn ambiguous operational or customer needs into structured requirements, metrics and a prioritised roadmap
• Communicate clearly and credibly with engineers, programme leaders, customers and senior military stakeholders
• Are eligible to obtain national security clearance
• Can travel to test sites, customers and partners

Nice to have

• Have worked on collaborative or distributed fusion across multiple platforms
• Understand perception-aided navigation
• Know military aviation, ISR or electronic warfare
• Understand tactical data links, C2 interfaces and common operating picture concepts
• Have worked within airworthiness, safety and certification processes for airborne software, such as DO-178C
• Have hands-on experience of ML-based perception, simulation or synthetic data
• Have worked with European defence customers and procurement agencies

Benefits

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Gym membership and mental health support
• Regularly company events and monthly social allowances
• 22 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 6 weeks fully paid parental leave for secondary caregivers
• 5 days of paid family emergency leave
• 100% remote work option during pregnancy
• Phased return to work

Before you apply

• Are eligible to obtain national security clearance

About the company

Helsing is a defence AI company. Their mission is to protect democracies through technological leadership.