Software Engineer, Software-Ingenieur, DevOps Ingenieur

Who We Are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards. As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We develop and deliver AI‑based capabilities and the enabling infrastructure that allow semi‑autonomous platforms to localise, navigate, and perceive the world in real time. We build software that is subject to significant and unorthodox technical constraints, must operate in a wide variety of constantly changing environments, and has to support an ever‑growing list of challenging use‑cases. What we build ultimately ends up in the hands of real people in high‑risk, high‑stress situations, so it must be both reliable and frictionless.

• Distributed systems (e.g., intermittent connectivity and Byzantine actors)
• Embedded computing (e.g., resource‑constrained compute and reverse‑engineering)
• Robotics (e.g., control systems and tasking)
• Networking (e.g., long‑range low‑bandwidth radios and cross‑medium routing)
• Deployment infrastructure (e.g., air‑gapped devices and heterogeneous fleets)
• Security (e.g., data sharing in low‑trust, no‑TLS networks and actually‑secret data handling)
• Machine learning (e.g., systems for model development, storage, and dissemination)

• Review code contributions, proposals, and RFCs from colleagues.
• Propose and new features, capabilities, algorithms, infrastructure, or even full products across our stack.
• Become a mentor, find a mentee, and help support and develop our interviewing pipeline.
• Share your experience and technical know‑how with other Helsingers.
• Maintain our existing software stack, including working with internal and external customers to identify issues, improve operational reliability and performance, and fend off technical debt.
• Further develop our tests and benchmarks, both at the micro and macro level.
• Present your work at our weekly demo sessions.

• Can write legible, maintainable, and performant code.
• Communicate well in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Enjoy collaborating with others, including reviewing code and pair programming.
• Are comfortable working asynchronously (writing PRs and RFCs, having discussions by email).
• Have backend development experience, ideally with a language like Rust, Java, Go, or C++.
• Are familiar with backend interface tools like REST, Graph
  
  QL, gRPC/Protocol Buffers, and Arrow.
• Strive to improve yourself, your peers, and the culture you work in over time.
• Feel like ethical considerations are an inherent part of engineering.

• Rust and Python specifically.
• Container‑based and cloud‑native application architectures (e.g., Docker, Azure, AWS).
• Metrics tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• SQL and streaming database systems.
• Routing protocols (e.g., IGP, BGP).
• Cryptographic protocols (e.g., Signal, Wire Guard).
• Hardware interfaces (e.g., Arduino).
• Robotics (e.g., control systems).
• Production ML systems.

• Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns.
• The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital.
• Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation.
• In our domain, success is a matter of order‑of‑magnitude improvements and novel capabilities.
• We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it.

• A focus on outcomes, not time‑tracking
• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Relocation support
• Social and education allowances
• Regular company events and all‑hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe
• A hands‑on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you build tooling and applications used across the company.

Helsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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