Radio Frequency Engineer

Overview

As an RF Engineer in Helsing’s Physical Products team, you will design and integrate RF front-ends and antennas for platforms operating in contested environments. You’ll work across the full chain—from design to testing—ensuring RF subsystems meet link budgets, resilience, and EMI requirements in real-world conditions. You’ll collaborate across electronics, software, and systems disciplines to deliver robust, field-tested solutions that support our mission to protect democracies. This role offers hands-on hardware work and meaningful impact at the cutting edge of defence technology.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• VSOP options
• Relocation support
• Learning allowance
• Health & wellness benefits
• Parental leave and family support

Responsibilities

• Design and specify RF front-ends, antennas, and related hardware with attention to gain, bandwidth, efficiency, size, and cost trade-offs
• Own link budget analysis for communications, telemetry, and seeker/radar systems
• Enhance resilience to contested electromagnetic environments, addressing jamming and interference
• Integrate RF systems into the wider electrical architecture with grounding, shielding, and EMC considerations
• Operate RF test equipment (spectrum analysers, VNAs, signal generators) to characterise and validate hardware
• Collaborate with electronics, software and systems engineers to ensure clean integration with power, structure and avionics
• Support field testing including range trials and EW/interference testing, and feed results back into design
• Produce documentation such as link budgets, test reports, and interface definitions for team and customers

Key requirements

• Designed and integrated RF systems in a professional engineering context (ideally aerospace/defence or safety-critical domains)
• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals (propagation, antennas, link budgets, modulation, noise, interference)
• Hands-on experience with RF test and measurement equipment and debugging real hardware
• Experience in systems that must operate in degraded RF environments or the ability to reason about such requirements
• Ability to interpret complex datasheets and translate specifications into sound RF design decisions
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration skills and clear written/spoken English

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear written and spoken communication
• Problem-solving in high-stakes environments
• RF front-end and antenna design
• Link-budget analysis
• EMC/grounding/shielding considerations

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