# Senior Design Engineer at Helsing

- Company: Helsing
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://helsing.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://helsing.ai/jobs/4895583101?gh_jid=4895583101
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/helsing-senior-design-engineer/

## About the role

As a Design Engineer, you will work on innovative UAV platforms, modifying and adapting existing mechanical and electrical designs to meet US customer requirements and specifications. You will design the mechanical and electrical architecture for various unmanned and autonomous systems, ensuring their design, implementation, and testing meets the needs of the end-user. You will work in close collaboration with systems engineers, embedded systems engineers, production teams, and customer-facing program managers.

## What they're looking for

- Modify and adapt existing UAV platform mechanical and electrical designs and interfaces to meet US customer needs, specifications, and regulatory requirements
- Own subsystems design and participate in the overall development of platform architecture, ensuring consistency in decision-making meetings
- Conceptualize and design UAV and supporting system hardware configurations through comprehensive trade studies and analytical assessments
- Develop modular solutions using WOSA (Weapons Open Systems Architecture) standards to ensure interoperability and upgradability
- Create electronic architectures and mechanical design concepts, specification design, and select appropriate components
- Produce 3D and 2D documentation using SolidWorks or similar CAD/PLM tools, ensuring proper form, fit, and function of components by using analytical and simulation tools

Tags: Hardware Engineering