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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Staff AI Research Engineer - Computer Vision

Helsing Munich - Berlin - London - Paris staff full-time

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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

Nice to have

  • Rust
  • C++
  • object detection
  • classification
  • single and multi-object tracking
  • scene understanding

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