AI Research Engineer - AI Safety
Helsing builds AI-powered software and autonomous systems for military applications, valued at over €12 billion as one of Europe's leading defence tech companies. They're hiring an AI Research Engineer - AI Safety, based in London. This AI engineering role sits within the UK's growing defence AI sector.
Helsing develops AI-driven capabilities that enhance machine perception and support human decision-making in defence and security environments. Their work combines advanced modelling with real-world hardware constraints, robustness, and safety considerations.
This role, focused on AI Assurance, involves developing scalable methods for evaluating the performance and reliability of Helsing’s AI systems. You will design data collection and experimentation strategies, assess model behaviour across operational domains, and advance techniques in uncertainty quantification and robustness testing, including adversarial scenarios.
Your work will help ensure that AI products deployed across Helsing’s platforms remain safe, reliable, and resilient, contributing to responsible and mission-critical decision-making in complex environments.
The role is suited to candidates with strong mathematical and statistical foundations, solid software engineering skills, and an interest in state-of-the-art machine learning research. Ideal for those who enjoy bridging research and engineering to ensure the safe deployment of high-impact AI systems.
About Helsing
Helsing is a defence technology company focused on building AI-powered software and autonomous systems for military applications across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. Founded in Munich in 2021 by Gundbert Scherf, Niklas Kohler, and Torsten Reil, the company has rapidly scaled to become one of Europe's most valuable defence tech startups, valued at €12B following a €600M Series D led by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's Prima Materia. Helsing has delivered thousands of strike drones to Ukraine, acquired aircraft manufacturer Grob Aircraft, and unveiled the CA-1 Europa autonomous combat aerial vehicle. The UK is a core operating market: Helsing incorporated its UK subsidiary simultaneously with German operations in 2021, has committed £350M of investment under the UK-Germany Trinity House Agreement, opened an 18,000 sq ft Resilience Factory in Plymouth to produce the SG-1 Fathom autonomous submarine-hunting glider, and holds multiple MoD contracts including the ASGARD programme for AI-enabled battlefield targeting. The company maintains a London HQ at Mortimer Street and actively hires across UK engineering and AI research roles.