Senior Rust Systems Engineer for Autonomous Drone AI

helsing.ai; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance coverage (medical and travel

Remote and/or hybrid work options

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Helsing is seeking a seasoned systems programmer to join our US operations and work on Altra, Helsing's drone software platform written primarily in Rust. You will design and build low-latency, reliable services for autonomous capabilities in challenging environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, real-time performance, and collaboration with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines. US citizenship for security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems-level software engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Rust, or strong experience in C++ with willingness to use Rust.
• Experience building distributed, real-time or low-latency systems.
• Experience with video streaming, pub/sub messaging, sensor data processing, embedded systems, or robotics.
• Experience interfacing AI/ML pipelines and working with Python.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining Rust services across the Altra platform.
• Collaborating with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines into the broader system.
• Working across the stack from networking to application-level services.
• Contributing to increasingly advanced autonomy features.
• Developing and testing software using simulation environments.
• Ensuring software reliability on resource-constrained platforms in real-world constraints.

Skills

5+ years systems experience

Rust proficiency

C/C++ experience

Distributed systems

Real-time / low-latency

Python familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/related field

Job description

Helsing is seeking a seasoned systems programmer to join our US operations and work on Altra, Helsing's drone software platform written primarily in Rust. You will design and build low-latency, reliable services for autonomous capabilities in challenging environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, real-time performance, and collaboration with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines. US citizenship for security clearance is required.