Product Manager – Perception & Sensor Fusion

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.

As Product Manager (Air) – Perception & Sensor Fusion, you will define what our uncrewed combat aerial vehicle sees, understands and shares. You will own the product vision and roadmap for the full perception software stack, spanning electro-optical and electromagnetic sensor processing, data fusion from single sensors to collaborative multi-aircraft operations, the common operating picture, and perception-based navigation in GNSS-denied environments. Working with operational users, software and AI engineers, systems engineers and flight test teams, you will translate demanding mission needs into clear requirements, measurable performance targets and a prioritised roadmap, and you will see your decisions travel from whiteboard to flight test. By giving aircraft and operators a reliable, trustworthy picture of the battlespace, you will shape a core capability of a next-generation European uncrewed combat aircraft and directly strengthen the ability of European armed forces to deter and defend, with humans firmly in control.

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for airborne perception, covering EO/IR and RF sensor processing, multi-level data fusion, situational awareness and perception-aided navigation, so that every release maps to a defined operational capability
• Translate operational needs, mission threads and customer requirements into product requirements, measurable KPIs and acceptance criteria that engineering and flight test can verify
• Work closely with perception, fusion, autonomy and navigation engineers to resolve architecture-level trade-offs across performance, latency, bandwidth, SWaP and schedule
• Define how perception outputs and the common operating picture serve mission autonomy, collaborative operations and the human operator, including how uncertainty is represented and communicated
• Partner with systems engineering, flight test and safety teams to shape test and evidence strategies, from simulation and hardware-in-the-loop to flight test campaigns
• Shape the perception data strategy with data and ML infrastructure teams, including collection campaigns, simulation and synthetic data needs
• Work directly with customers, operational users and partners to gather feedback and run demonstrations, keeping the roadmap anchored in real-world operational value

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.

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