AI Research Engineer - ML & Signal Processing
Helsing · Berlin; Munich · Barcelona · Berlin · London · Munich · Paris
Defenseonsite
At a glance
Highlights
- Build AI for electronic warfare systems detecting RF signals in contested spectrum.
- Own research end-to-end from prototyping on real data to deployment on edge hardware.
- Tackle self-supervised learning for deinterleaving, emitter ID and anomaly detection.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and VSOP options
- Relocation support up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
- €500/£450 yearly learning allowance
- Gym membership and mental health support
- Regular company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks primary and 6 weeks secondary
Ideal candidate
Mission-driven ML researcher with PhD-level depth who thrives on messy real-world data and shipping to production. Curious, pragmatic builder eager to learn RF and work closely with engineers and operators.
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent research track record in ML, signal processing, physics, electrical engineering or related field with publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ICASSP or similar
- Shipped non-trivial ML into a real product beyond notebooks
- Comfortable on irregular, noisy sequence data including temporal models and calibration under distribution shift
- Write clean Python and willing to pick up Rust for deployment
- Able to read papers and reimplement them with judgment on what will hold up
- Communicate research clearly to ML peers, RF engineers and end users
Lab profile
About Helsing
Defence AI company building AI-enabled capabilities to protect democracies.
What they build
- Autonomous combat drones (HX-2)
- AI agents for fighter aircraft
- AI-based surveillance and reconnaissance systems
Known for
- Defence AI
- Autonomy and robotics
- Perception and sensor fusion
- Avionics and systems engineering
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in Berlin, Germany
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