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Staff AI Research Engineer - ML Engineering

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Hybrid (Berlin/London/Munich)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Pioneering the future of autonomous decision-making for defence, Helsing seeks a Staff AI Research Engineer specialized in ML Engineering to architect and implement scalable tools and platforms that enable large-scale ML training and deployment, bridging machine learning and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Extend our highly integrated deep learning frameworks (built on top of PyTorch), making them efficient and easy to use for a wide range of use cases.
  • Scale our current infrastructure and tooling stack to support faster and larger distributed training.
  • Design data strategy to support large scale datasets and efficient storage, ensuring GPUs stay warm.

Qualifications

  • Hold an MSc or PhD in Computer Science or STEM field, with a focus on Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
  • Have strong software engineering skills in Python and fluency with modern DL frameworks (PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow). You don’t just import libraries; you are comfortable writing custom layers, loss functions, and distributed training loops.
  • Are a clear communicator who can build from complex theoretical concepts and contribute to the company's internal engineering culture.
  • Have a "first-principles" mindset: you enjoy reading the latest AI optimisation blog posts and integrating them into codebases rapidly.
  • You have debugged production ML pipelines and can tell a good war story about finding a subtle numerical or performance issue.

Skills

Required:PythonPyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow

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
  • A hands-on onboarding program (“AI-duction”) to learn tools and ML pipelines from day one
Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

AI for electronic warfareAI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systemsAutonomous air dominanceMass defence manufacturingRecce strike softwareUnderwater autonomous massliquid-ai-recruiting-target
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