Helsing
25 open rolesHelsing 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.
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AI Research Engineer - Computer Vision
AI Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning
Analog/Digital R&D Electronic Engineer - Physical Products
AI Research Engineer - Foundation Models
AI Research Engineer - ML Engineering
Deployed AI Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer - Nix/NixOS
Software Engineer - Backend
Software Engineer - Embedded NixOS
Software Engineer - Frontend
Deployed Product Designer
Graphic Designer
Finance Administrator
Financial Accountant
Health & Safety and Environment Manager
HRIS & Systems Lead
Mechatronics R&D Engineer
Production Engineer - Maritime
Workplace Planning Lead
FP&A Team Lead
Product Manager
Social Media Manager & Copywriter
Talent Operations Coordinator - 12 month FTC
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