AI Research Engineer - ML & Signal Processing
Helsing · Munich - Berlin - London - Paris · Berlin · London · Munich · Paris
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build AI for electronic warfare to detect and classify RF signals.
- Prototype on real recorded data and push models to run on edge hardware.
- Tackle self-supervised learning, 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 via Nilo.health
- Regular company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary caregivers
- 5 days paid family emergency leave and family support options
Ideal candidate
PhD-level ML researcher who has shipped real models and thrives on messy, noisy sequence data. Mission-driven builder eager to learn RF alongside engineers and see work run on real platforms.
Requirements
- Hold a 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
- Have shipped non-trivial ML into a real product beyond notebooks
- Comfortable on irregular, noisy sequence data including temporal and self-supervised or contrastive methods
- Write clean Python and willing to pick up Rust where deployment demands it
- 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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