AI Research Engineer - AI Safety in London

At Helsing we deliver AI-based capabilities and the enabling foundation that allow machines to perceive and assist human decision‐making. You will have the unique opportunity to shape AI capabilities in one of the most challenging sectors, where high generalisation capabilities need to be paired with hardware constraints and robustness against adversarial attacks.

The day-to-day:

• Define operational domains and evaluate the reliability of the AI capabilities developed in-house.
• Develop and extend the state‐of‐the‐art in uncertainty quantification and uncertainty calibration.
• Understand the AI systems we build, interface with them, and evaluate their robustness in real‐world and adversarial scenarios.
• Contribute to impactful projects and collaborate with people across several teams and backgrounds.

You should apply if you:

• Hold a STEM MSc with a solid mathematical and statistical background.
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally.
• Are passionate about keeping up to date with current research and enjoy reimplementing / extending papers on state‐of‐the‐art Deep Learning‐based approaches.
• Possess solid software engineering skills, writing clean and well‐structured code in Python and/or languages like Rust, Java, or modern C++, and experience deploying AI software to production including testing, QA, and monitoring.

Nice to have:

• PhD in either model evaluation and robustness, uncertainty quantification, experimental design, causal inference or related fields.
• Have authored publications in top‐tier journals and conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).
• Previous industrial experience in assuring the safe deployment of AI products.
• Experience deploying AI software to production including testing, quality assurance, and monitoring.

Join Helsing and work with world‐leading experts in their fields. Helsing's work is important. You'll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns. The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world.

Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward.

In our domain, success is a matter of order‐of‐magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts.

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practice responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about.

What we offer:

• A focus on outcomes, not time‐tracking.
• Competitive compensation and stock options.
• Relocation support.
• Social and education allowances.
• Regular company events and all‐hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe.
• A hands‐on onboarding program (affectionately labelled "AI‐duction"), in which you will be familiarising yourself with our tools and ML pipelines used across the company. This is your opportunity to learn our tech stack, explore the company, and learn how we get things done - all whilst working with other AI and engineering teams from day one.

Helsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full‐time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development