Multimodal Sensing and Fusion Engineer

EngineersOfAI; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 103,626 - 149,683; Full time

Job summary

Helsing builds software and AI to enhance defence capabilities. You will own the multimodal sensing and fusion stack, designing the front-end that fuses EO/LWIR cameras, radar, LiDAR, and inertial sensors into a coherent input for Helsing's AI.

This role sits at the intersection of hardware engineering and AI research, with collaboration across teams in Munich, Berlin, or London, ensuring safety concepts and graceful degradation in field operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in sensing architectures or sensor fusion is a plus.
• Ability to translate mission requirements into sensor specifications.
• Security-conscious mindset for defence applications.

Responsibilities

• Define multimodal sensing architecture: integrate EO and LWIR cameras, radar, LiDAR, and IMUs; align with AI team.

Job description

Who we are

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers.We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

The role

Helsing builds software and AI that makes existing defence hardware up to ten times more capable. The sensing stack is where that capability begins. Without precise, synchronised, calibrated sensor data, the AI has nothing to work with.

As Multimodal Sensing and FusionEngineer, you will own that stack end to end. You will architect the multimodal perception front-end that combines electro-optical and long-wave infrared cameras, radar, LiDAR, and inertial sensing into a single, coherent input to Helsing's AI. You will translate mission requirements into concrete specifications for sensorselection, placement, synchronisation, and calibration, and you will define the safety concepts that ensure the system degrades gracefully and fails safe in the field.

This is not a prototyping role. The systems you design go into operational environments. The quality of the data you deliver directly affects the decisions Helsing's AI supports in the field. You will sit at the intersection of hardware engineers, electrical engineers, and AI and computer-vision researchers, working out of Munich,Berlinor London.

The day-to-day

• Define the multimodal sensing architecture: select and integrate EO and LWIR cameras, radar, LiDAR, and IMUs, aligning requirements with the AI team to optimise algorithm performance and balance trade-offs across size, weight, power, cost, and robustness.