Description
Who we are
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.
The role
Imagine building the vital infrastructure for a cutting-edge autonomous aerial platform that will actually take flight. At Helsing, you won't just be developing software; you'll be shaping the foundational capabilities for our own Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), the CA-1 Europa. This is a unique opportunity to directly contribute to a novel system designed from the ground up. You will be building the higher-level mission control foundation, the sophisticated infrastructure that enables real-time sensor processing, secure communication, seamless integration of autonomous decision-making modules, and reliable interfacing with lower-level flight control systems.
The day-to-day
- Review code contributions, proposals, and RFCs from colleagues, ensuring robustness and adherence to safety and performance standards critical for airborne applications.
- Propose and implement new features, capabilities, algorithms, infrastructure, or even full products across our stack, with a focus on refining the capabilities and reliability of our airborne mission systems.
- Become a mentor, find a mentee, and help support and develop our interviewing pipeline.
- Share your experience and technical know-how with other Helsingers.
- Maintain our existing software stack, including working with internal and external customers to identify issues, improving operational reliability and performance, and fending off technical debt.
- Further develop our tests and benchmarks, both at the micro and macro level, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations and flight testing.
- Present your work at our weekly demo sessions.
You should apply if you
- Can write legible, maintainable, and performant code.
- Communicate well in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Enjoy collaborating with others, including reviewing code and pair programming, particularly on complex system architectures involving tight hardware-software integration on a real-world aerial platform.
- Are comfortable working asynchronously.
- Have strong backend or embedded development experience, ideally with a language like Rust, Go, or C++.
- Feel comfortable developing distributed systems.
- Strive to improve yourself, your peers, and the culture you work in over time.
- Feel like ethical considerations are an inherent part of engineering.
Nice to have
- Significant experience with Rust.
- Network programming experience.
- Experience designing or implementing custom runtime environments, sandboxing, or secure execution contexts for third-party code.
- Experience with avionics, flight control systems, or Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC).
- Familiarity with low-level flight control systems and their interfaces.
- Experience with sensor integration and sensor fusion techniques for navigation.
- Hardware interfaces.
Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields
- Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns.
- The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital.
- Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation.
- In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities.
- We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it.
What 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.