Staff AI Research Engineer: Real-Time Computer Vision

Sponsor Finder; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4

Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

Gym membership and mental health 支持

Social: monthly social allowances

Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks + 6

Remote work option during pregnancy

Job summary

Helsing, a defence AI company, seeks engineers to shape AI capabilities in perception, focusing on real-time video analysis and robust deployment. You will develop and evaluate state-of-the-art object detection and tracking models, with attention to compute constraints and production readiness.

Join a mission-driven team venturing into challenging, ethically aware applications. You will collaborate with research, engineering and product groups to deliver impactful, robust AI systems for complex

Qualifications

• MSc in CS, ML, robotics or closely related field required.
• Hands-on CV model development and deployment experience.
• Experience with modern CV architectures (CNNs/Transformers).
• Strong Python software engineering and production deployment experience.
• Excellent communication and ability to present research clearly.

Responsibilities

• Optimise real-time CV models for target hardware performance.
• Research and adapt SOTA detection, tracking, or classification methods.
• Run multi-GPU training on large sensor datasets for foundation models.
• Collaborate with product and deployment teams to identify perception bottlenecks.

Skills

MSc in CS/ML

Computer vision

Deep learning

Python

Research experience

Strong communication

Education

MSc in CS/ML/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

C++

Rust

Job description

Helsing, a defence AI company, seeks engineers to shape AI capabilities in perception, focusing on real-time video analysis and robust deployment. You will develop and evaluate state-of-the-art object detection and tracking models, with attention to compute constraints and production readiness.

Join a mission-driven team venturing into challenging, ethically aware applications. You will collaborate with research, engineering and product groups to deliver impactful, robust AI systems for complex