# Staff AI Research Engineer -  Computer Vision

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich - Berlin - London - Paris
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

You will be part of a computer vision team responsible for building models for object detection, recognition, classification, and tracking.

The role involves:

- Optimising models for real-time deployed performance on target hardware

- Researching new model architectures and adapting SOTA detection, tracking, or classification methods

- Running multi-GPU or multi-node training jobs on large-scale sensor datasets

- Interacting with product and downstream deployment teams to identify perception bottlenecks

Requirements:

- MSc in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or a closely related field

- Hands-on experience developing and deploying computer vision models

- Familiarity with modern deep learning architectures for visual perception

- Solid software engineering skills, writing clean and well-structured code in Python

- Excellent communication skills

Nice to have:

- PhD in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, or a related field

- Experience with object detection and classification, single and multi-object tracking, or scene understanding

- Experience designing, evaluating, and delivering end-to-end AI systems on edge devices

- Experience with simulators, emulators, or synthetic data generation pipelines

- Experience with Rust and/or C++

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- computer vision
- deep learning
- machine learning
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- Rust
- C++
- object detection
- classification
- single and multi-object tracking
- scene understanding

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