DMU (Digital Mock-Up) Engineer

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 As DMU Engineer, you will own the complete Digital  Mock -Up for Helsing's complex drone systems, governing spatial integration across structural,  mechanical  and electrical subsystems. Working at the centre of cross-functional engineering activity, you will drive clash resolution, enforce modelling  standards  and lead 3D design reviews that  determine  configuration maturity.    The day-to-day Build, maintain and govern the complete DMU for complex drone systems, performing regular clash, clearance and interference analyses across structural, mechanical and electrical subsystems, and driving the resolution of spatial conflicts before they reach hardware   Organise and lead cross-functional 3D design reviews using the DMU as the authoritative integration baseline, providing quantitative assessments of design maturity that directly inform programme milestone decisions   Ensure accurate space allocation, packaging and routing integration for wiring harnesses, piping and payloads within the vehicle envelope, simulating virtual assembly sequences to validate tool accessibility and maintainability for production and field operations   Track, analyse and report critical physical vehicle properties, including weight, centre of gravity and mass inertia, providing stakeholders with timely, accurate data that informs configuration trade-off decisions   Define, enforce and document 3D modelling standards, DMU methodologies and data quality requirements across engineering teams, ensuring CAD and PLM environments remain coherent and audit-ready throughout the programme lifecycle   You should apply if you Have owned DMU management and 3D packaging integration for complex aerospace or defence systems, using advanced CAD and PLM tools such as Siemens NX/Teamcenter VisMockup, CATIA or SolidWorks/PDM   Have resolved complex electro-mechanical packaging, tolerancing and routing challenges in constrained vehicle envelopes, with a clear understanding of assembly processes and manufacturing limitations   Have tracked weight, balance and centre-of-gravity properties for flight vehicles, translating physical vehicle data into actionable configuration recommendations   Can define and enforce 3D modelling standards across multidisciplinary engineering teams, building organisational rigour into DMU workflows rather than applying governance retrospectively   Act decisively with minimal guidance, own outcomes end-to-end and initiate solutions without waiting for direction   Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically   under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points. Nice to Have Experience reporting integration risk and DMU status to senior programme stakeholders, translating complex spatial conflict data into clear, decision-ready summaries   Familiarity with virtual maintainability and assembly sequence validation in support of field operations and production engineering teams   Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields   Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward In our domain, success is