AI Research Engineer - ML & Signal Processing

The role

You will work at the intersection of machine learning and signal processing on RF data to build AI capabilities for electronic warfare systems. You will own problems end-to-end by reading literature, prototyping on real data, and pushing models to the edge.

What you will do

• Build AI models that detect, classify, and reason about RF signals in congested, contested spectrum
• Read literature and prototype on real recorded data
• Push models to the edge and monitor performance on real platforms
• Work in a small research team alongside RF and hardware engineers and operators
• Focus on self-supervised representation learning, deinterleaving, emitter identification, mode recognition, and anomaly detection on embedded hardware
• Communicate research clearly to ML peers, RF engineers, and end users

Required qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research track record in ML, signal processing, physics, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Publications at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ICASSP, or similar venues
• Shipped non-trivial ML into a real product
• Comfortable with irregular, noisy sequence data including temporal models, self-supervised or contrastive methods, and calibration under distribution shift
• Write clean Python
• Willing to pick up Rust where the deployment target demands it
• Ability to read papers and reimplement them

Nice to have

• Experience with EW, SIGINT, ESM/ELINT, RWR, or radar concepts
• Familiarity with RF signal theory at a level sufficient to talk to RF engineers
• Experience deploying ML to edge or embedded hardware (ONNX, TensorRT, quantisation, profiling on constrained GPUs)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Regular company events and monthly social allowances
• 22 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 6 weeks fully paid parental leave for secondary caregivers
• 5 days of paid family emergency leave
• 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

About the company

Helsing is a defence AI company with the mission to protect liberal democracies through technological leadership. They are an ambitious team of engineers and specialists focused on solving complex problems using powerful technologies like AI.