Senior AI Research Engineer - 3D Vision & SLAM

Sponsor Finder; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Gym/mental health support

Social events

Parental leave

Family support

Job summary

Helsing is seeking dedicated engineers to advance AI-based capabilities for defence applications. You will develop computer vision models and pipelines for scene understanding, localisation, and 3D reconstruction, with attention to hardware constraints and real-world robustness.

You will collaborate across research, engineering and product teams, benchmarking methods and adapting state-of-the-art geometric DL and SLAM techniques for deployable platforms.

Qualifications

• Hold an MSc in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or closely related field.
• Experience designing localisation, scene matching, or 3D reconstruction systems.
• Familiar with modern geometric CV and deep learning approaches, including learned feature matching and place recognition.
• Solid software engineering with Python and deploying AI to production (testing/QA/monitoring).
• Strong communication skills to report research clearly to internal/external audiences.
• Keep up-to-date with research; reimplement and extend state-of-the-art in geometric DL, SLAM and 3D vision.

Responsibilities

• Developing and benchmarking scene matching and geo-registration pipelines robust to illumination, viewpoint, season, or sensor modality.
• Building and evaluating SLAM, visual odometry, or structure-from-motion for deployable platforms under real-world constraints.
• Researching and adapting geometric deep learning or feature matching methods to concrete use cases.
• Collaborating with product and deployment teams to integrate localisation and reconstruction outputs into navigation or decision-making pipelines and shaping the roadmap for new capabilities.

Skills

MSc degree

Scene matching

3D reconstruction

SLAM

Python

Geometric DL

Domain adaptation

Model compression

Education

MSc in CS/ML/Robotics

Tools

Rust

C++

Job description

Helsing is seeking dedicated engineers to advance AI-based capabilities for defence applications. You will develop computer vision models and pipelines for scene understanding, localisation, and 3D reconstruction, with attention to hardware constraints and real-world robustness.

You will collaborate across research, engineering and product teams, benchmarking methods and adapting state-of-the-art geometric DL and SLAM techniques for deployable platforms.