# Software Engineer, Rust

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Washington, DC, DC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. They build Altra, an AI-powered drone software platform, and HX-2, their autonomous drone.

You will work on Altra, Helsing's drone software platform, primarily written in Rust. You will design and build systems-level software that powers autonomous capabilities in challenging operational environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain Rust services across the Altra platform

- Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines into the broader system

- Work across the stack, from networking and protocol implementation to application-level services

- Contribute to increasingly advanced autonomy features

- Develop and test software using simulation environments

- Write software that must perform reliably on resource-constrained platforms under real-world constraints

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in systems-level software engineering

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- Proficient in Rust, or have strong experience in C++ or another systems-level compiled language with a willingness to work in Rust daily

- Experience building distributed systems, particularly in unreliable or constrained network environments

- Experience with real-time or low-latency systems where performance and reliability are critical

- Experience with at least one or two areas relevant to our stack: video streaming, pub/sub messaging, sensor data processing, embedded systems, protocol design, or robotics

- Designed or built systems that interface with AI/ML pipelines , streaming data to models, handling inference outputs, managing pipeline orchestration

- Familiarity with Python, particularly for interfacing with ML/AI components

- U.S. citizenship required

Nice to have:

- Direct experience with Rust in production systems

- Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or drone systems

- Experience with sensor fusion or multi-sensor data processing

- Familiarity with swarming, multi-agent systems, or decentralized coordination algorithms

- Experience with constrained or embedded platforms

- Familiarity with Nix or NixOS for reproducible builds and development environments

- Experience with SITL/HITL (Software/Hardware-In-The-Loop) simulation and testing frameworks for autonomous systems

- Experience with RF communications, telemetry, or datalink systems

- Background in defense or national security

Benefits:

- A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

- A generous compensation and benefits package (in addition to base salary) that includes, but may not be limited to, insurance coverage (medical and travel), flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position.

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- C++
- systems-level software engineering
- distributed systems
- real-time systems
- low-latency systems
- video streaming
- pub/sub messaging
- sensor data processing
- embedded systems
- protocol design
- robotics
- AI/ML pipelines
- Python

### Nice to have
- Rust in production systems
- autonomous vehicles
- drone systems
- sensor fusion
- multi-sensor data processing
- swarming
- multi-agent systems
- decentralized coordination algorithms
- constrained or embedded platforms
- Nix or NixOS
- SITL/HITL simulation and testing frameworks
- RF communications
- telemetry
- datalink systems
- defense or national security

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