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Staff AI Research Engineer - Computer Vision

Helsing· AI & Engineering
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Hybrid (Berlin; London; Munich)Not specifiedPosted 3mo ago

About the role

AI research engineer role focused on computer vision within Helsing, a defence AI company. Build and optimize models for object detection, recognition, classification, and tracking; adapt state-of-the-art architectures to real-world deployment constraints and hardware. Collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams to deliver robust perception capabilities for mission-critical applications.

Responsibilities

  • Optimising models for real-time deployed performance on target hardware: selecting the best architecture or layers for throughput and latency constraints, curating and leveraging data to improve performance
  • Researching new model architectures, replicating and adapting SOTA detection, tracking, or classification methods to concrete use cases according to operational needs
  • Running multi-GPU or multi-node training jobs on large-scale sensor datasets to build powerful foundation or auto-annotation models
  • Interacting with product and downstream deployment teams to identify perception bottlenecks, prioritise improvements, and shape the roadmap for new capabilities

Qualifications

  • Hold an MSc in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or a closely related field, with experience in designing, implementing, and thoroughly evaluating advanced AI-based systems
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying computer vision models
  • Familiarity with modern deep learning architectures for visual perception (convolutional and transformer-based models)
  • Experience applying techniques such as multi-task learning, domain adaptation, or model compression
  • Solid software engineering skills in Python; experience deploying AI software to production with testing, QA, and monitoring
  • Excellent communication skills for reporting and presenting research findings

Skills

Required:Convolutional neural networksTransformer-based modelsPython
Nice to have:Multi-task learningDomain adaptationModel compression

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • 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
Last updated Oct 20, 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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