Rapid Capabilities Engineer

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 are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

Software only matters when it is actively being used to make a difference. As a Rapid Capabilities Engineer, you will be at the heart of this - takingour state-of-the-art software and deploying and integrating it into complex systems in non-traditional environments. You’ll be engaging directly with the users of that software and building critical last-mile functionality crucial for their, and Helsing's, success.

• Collaborate closely with our product and commercial teams; discovering and formalising customer requirements.
• Build and design critical functionality on top of foundational building blocks to enable one or many deliveries.
• Plan and lead the development and releases of new Software deployments for our customers.
• Monitor and deploy software directly to customer managed environments ranging from classified on-prem bare-metal clusters to several different cloud providers.
• Embed within a Software Engineering team to advocate for and work on the features your users want to see.
• Identify bugs in core services, fix them, and ship the latest features and updates direct to every deployment.
• Travel to customer sites for user-interviews, co-building sessions and co-use of the software deeply understand their needs and build your user empathy.
• Nothing is impossible for an RCE; no matter the stack or environment, you dive straight in, building, patching, deploying, and constantly contributing to the key outcomes of the business.

• Have a degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or other relevant fields.
• Possess strong communication skills, written and verbally.
• Enjoy understanding and breaking down technical concepts, and sharing your learnings with others.
• Are comfortable with back-end programming languages like Python, Rust, C++, Java, or similar.
• Experience with container-based,cloud-native and edgeapplication architectures.
• Are eager to go where you’re needed to get things done.

• An experience or interest in a technical customer-facing role.
• An interest in system architecture and infrastructure.
• Experience with 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, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world.

Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental:
Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward.

In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts.

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and…