Software Engineer - Airborne Mission Systems

The role

You will build the mission control foundation and infrastructure for the CA-1 Europa Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. This involves developing systems for real-time sensor processing, secure communication, and autonomous decision-making modules.

What you will do

• Review code contributions, proposals, and RFCs
• Propose and implement new features, capabilities, algorithms, and infrastructure
• Mentor others and support the interviewing pipeline
• Share technical know-how through tech talks and learning groups
• Maintain the existing software stack using Rust and Python
• Develop tests and benchmarks including hardware-in-the-loop simulations and flight testing
• Present work at weekly demo sessions

Required qualifications

• 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
• Comfortable working asynchronously
• Strong backend or embedded development experience, ideally with a language like Rust, Go, or C++
• Feel comfortable developing distributed systems
• Strive to improve yourself, your peers, and the culture you work in
• Feel like ethical considerations are an inherent part of engineering

Nice to have

• Significant experience with Rust
• Network programming experience
• Experience designing or implementing custom runtime environments, sandboxing, or secure execution contexts for third-party code
• Experience with avionics, flight control systems, or Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)
• Familiarity with low-level flight control systems and their interfaces
• Experience with sensor integration (IMUs, GPS, Lidar, Cameras) and sensor fusion techniques for navigation
• Hardware interfaces (e.g., Arduino)

Benefits

• A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking
• Competitive compensation and VSOP options
• Relocation support
• Social and education allowances
• Regular company events and all-hands

About the company

Helsing is a defence AI company on a mission to protect democracies. They aim to achieve technological leadership so open societies can maintain sovereign decisions and ethical standards.