Deployed AI Engineer

About the Position

Deployed AI Engineer

Berlin; London; Munich; Paris; Stockholm

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

As a Deployed AI Engineer, you will be at the heart of integrating state-of-the-art software into complex systems. You will be defining and executing against the end-to-end outcome and all steps on the way to delivering novel capabilities in some of the most challenging environments around.

• Collaborate directly with customer avionics engineers to understand the data structures and APIs used in aircraft mission control systems.
• Embrace the complexity of unfamiliar databases, APIs, or network protocols; dig into the specification and use your creativity and ingenuity to implement adapters for integrating them with Helsing’s cloud infrastructure.
• Work closely with our partners and customers to continuously evolve, improve, and operate Helsing software.
• Own the outcome end-to-end.

Requirements

• Have a degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or other relevant fields.
• Have a broad understanding and creative use of computer systems.
• Prefer asking questions over stipulating answers.
• Love figuring things out, digging deeper and deeper into unfamiliar systems until it finally clicks, and you understand how they work.
• Are not afraid of legacy systems and would rather make them work than give up and try to rewrite it all.
• Are comfortable with scripting languages such as Bash or Python and have experience with software engineering in C++, Java, Rust, or similar.
• Can navigate and configure Linux systems and have an understanding of network stacks and database systems.
• If applying for Germany - it is a requirement that you are able to speak business level or fluent German.

Note: We operate at an intersection 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 with Rust and Python.
• Experience with container-based, cloud-native, and edge application architectures.
• Experience with maintaining and operating production systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and streaming database systems.
• Experience with production ML systems.
• Bonus points: you have professional experience working in a defence context.

We Offer

• A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking.
• Competitive compensation and VSOP options.
• Relocation support.
• Social and education allowances.
• Regular company events and all-hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe.
• A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company. This is your opportunity to learn our tech stack, explore the company, and learn how we get things done - all whilst working with other engineering teams from day one.

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