Electrical Harness Engineer

As an Electrical Harness Engineer, you will own the full electrical harness design lifecycle across Helsing's drone platforms and their supporting ground systems from the airframe through to the catapult launcher and Ground Control Station. You will translate system interface requirements into manufacturable harness designs, govern routing decisions across mechanically and electromagnetically challenging environments, and own the data packages released to suppliers. Your work is the physical backbone connecting every subsystem on the platform, ensuring mission-critical reliability and performance across operations.

The day-to-day includes:

• Design harnesses end-to-end across three platform domains: airframe, catapult launch system, and Ground Control Station producing 2D schematics, 3D routed models, and 2D formboard manufacturing drawings complete with branch geometry, bundle diameters, breakout locations and all supplier call-outs.
• Define routing architectures that account for domain-specific constraints: vibration and flex on the airframe, high-G shock and environmental exposure on the catapult, and density, thermal management and serviceability on the GCS.
• Select wire types, shielding constructions and connector solutions appropriate to each environment making deliberate trade-offs between weight, EMC performance, temperature rating and manufacturability.
• Apply EMC-aware design practices throughout: cable segregation, shield termination strategy, backshell bonding, and minimum separation between high-noise and sensitive circuits.
• Build and validate prototypes hands-on in the lab verifying routing, connector mating, shield continuity and workmanship before any supplier release.
• Own the supplier data package end-to-end: define it, check it for completeness and zero-ambiguity, release it, and hold suppliers accountable to the output.
• Work closely with avionics, power electronics, RF/EMC and mechanical teams to align on interface requirements, resolve integration conflicts and ensure design-for-manufacture decisions early.
• Manage harness data within the PLM system: creating, maintaining and releasing.