Staff AI Vision Engineer - Real-Time CV on Edge

Helsing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Helsing is a defence AI company recruiting for a senior computer vision role in Europe. You will shape AI capabilities for real-world defence applications and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to deliver robust perception systems that run on constrained hardware.

Ideal candidates will have MSc/PhD, extensive CV experience, and a track record of deploying AI systems to production. The role offers an opportunity to work across Europe with a focus on responsible autonomy

Qualifications

• Hold an MSc in computer science, machine learning, robotics, or a closely related field.
• Have hands-on experience developing and deploying computer vision models.
• Familiar with modern deep learning architectures for visual perception, including CNNs and transformers.
• Possess solid software engineering skills, writing clean Python code and deploying AI software to production.
• Excellent communication skills for reporting research findings.
• Passionate about current research and re-implementing state-of-the-art approaches.

Responsibilities

• Optimising models for real-time deployed performance on target hardware.
• Researching new model architectures and adapting SOTA detection/tracking methods.
• Running multi-GPU or multi-node training on large-scale datasets.
• Collaborating with product and deployment teams to shape roadmaps for new capabilities.

Skills

Computer vision experience

Python programming

Deep learning architectures

Model deployment experience

Communication skills

Research and experimentation

Education

MSc in computer science, ML, robotics, or related field

PhD in computer vision, ML, robotics, or related field

Tools

Rust

C++

Python

Job description

Helsing is a defence AI company recruiting for a senior computer vision role in Europe. You will shape AI capabilities for real-world defence applications and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to deliver robust perception systems that run on constrained hardware.

Ideal candidates will have MSc/PhD, extensive CV experience, and a track record of deploying AI systems to production. The role offers an opportunity to work across Europe with a focus on responsible autonomy