Configuration & BOM Engineer

Who we are
Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitious and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.
The role
You will be the single owner of the Bill of Materials across our products — the person who can answer, at any moment and with confidence, what the product is made of, what it weighs, what it costs, where it comes from, and whether we can build it.
This is not a data-entry role. You will sit at the intersection of design engineering, procurement, quality and manufacturing, and you will be the one who turns a set of CAD assemblies and engineering intentions into an executable, auditable, buildable structure. You will decide how we represent our products as data, and you will hold the rest of the organization to that standard.
The day-to-day
Maintain a single, trusted source of truth for product structure across all programs, revisions and configurations.
Track as-designed and as-built mass at line, assembly and system level. Surface variance against allocation early, and make it visible to the people who can act on it.
Maintain target, quoted and actual cost per line; roll up to assembly and unit cost; track cost at volume and flag drift against program targets.
Record and verify country of origin and manufacturer for every part. Flag sourcing, export-control, ITAR/EAR and supply-chain-resilience risks to the relevant teams before they become schedule risks.
Define and maintain the status model that the whole company runs on, including:
Engineering released — the line is cleared by design and approved to purchase
Sourced — a qualified supplier and part number are identified
On order — a purchase order is placed
EDD — a current, credible estimated delivery date is held against every open line
Determine when an assembly's inputs are sufficiently cleared, ordered and inbound to trigger manufacturing to prepare for receiving and production. Manufacturing should be able to act on your signal without checking it.
Run the ECO/ECN process: assess change impact on mass, cost, schedule and inventory; manage effectivity and obsolescence; ensure nothing changes in CAD without changing in the BOM.