Electrical Harness Engineer

In this role you design and own the electrical harness lifecycle for Helsing’s drone platforms and ground systems, turning system requirements into manufacturable harnesses. You will define routing, select materials and connectors, and ensure EMI and environmental resilience across airframe, launcher, and Ground Control Station. You collaborate with avionics, power electronics, RF/EMC and mechanical teams to enable reliable, manufacturable integration. This position offers the chance to shape hardware capabilities in a mission-driven, ethically aware defence context.

• competitive salary
• VSOP options
• relocation support
• annual learning allowance
• health & wellness support
• remote work option during pregnancy and phased return

• Design end-to-end electrical harnesses across airframe, catapult launcher, and Ground Control Station, producing 2D schematics, 3D routed models, and manufacturing drawings
• Define routing architectures considering vibration, high-G shocks, thermal management, and serviceability
• Select wire types, shielding, and connectors, balancing weight, EMC, temperature, and manufacturability
• Apply EMC-aware design practices including cable segregation, shield terminations, backshell bonding, and separation between high-noise and sensitive circuits
• Prototype and validate through lab testing of routing, mating, shield continuity, and workmanship prior to supplier releases
• Own supplier data packages: create, verify completeness, release, and hold suppliers accountable
• Collaborate with avionics, power electronics, RF/EMC and mechanical teams to align interface requirements and drive design-for-manufacture decisions
• Manage harness data in PLM: create, maintain, release datasets with full traceability across revisions and variants

• 2D and 3D harness design experience and 2D formboard drawings for supplier build
• Proficiency in SOLIDWORKS Electrical and/or Siemens Capital
• Experience managing harness data within a PLM environment with traceability across design, manufacturing and supplier outputs
• Strong knowledge of connector/interconnects, backshells, shield terminations, and appropriate wire types
• Understanding of EMC at harness level and its impact on platform emissions performance
• Experience in aerospace or defence environments with familiarity of AS50881, EN3197 or MIL-W-22759
• Experience owning supplier data release and ensuring complete, unambiguous packages
• Nice-to-have: Zuken E3.series or CATIA Electrical, harness routing in carbon fibre composite airframes
• Familiarity with configuration management and change control in regulated hardware development programs

• team collaboration
• critical thinking
• proactive problem-solving
• SOLIDWORKS Electrical
• Siemens Capital
• PLM harness data management