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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. \nAs 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. \nWe 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. \nThe role\nOur Autonomous Air System V&V team builds the simulation and validation environments that enable rigorous testing of autonomous air systems before they ever leave the ground. We develop Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) environments that allow engineers to integrate, test, and assure AI-driven capabilities against virtualised and representative hardware.\nWe build software that is subject to significant and unorthodox technical constraints, must operate in a wide variety of constantly-changing environments, and has to support an ever-growing list of challenging use-cases. What we build ultimately ends up in the hands of real people in high-risk, high-stress situations - from mission planning to command and control (C2) and mission debrief - so must be both reliable and frictionless.\nTaken together, this brings a whole host of interesting engineering challenges across a wide variety of fields that you'll help us solve. To give some examples:\nData visualization (e.g., rendering complex simulation outputs, test results, and AI behavior in human-understandable ways)\n\nHuman-Autonomy Teaming (e.g., UIs for effective human oversight, control, and trust calibration)\n\nReal-time interfaces (e.g., live test execution dashboards, simulation monitoring, and streaming data displays)\n\nComplex technical UIs (e.g., making dense, multi-dimensional data accessible to engineers and operators)\n\nDesign systems (e.g., building reusable component libraries that enable rapid, consistent UI development across products)\n\nFrontend performance (e.g., efficiently rendering large datasets, optimizing real-time updates, and maintaining responsiveness under load)\n\nIn several of these areas, we are working near the state-of-the-art; we actively read (and sometimes implement) research papers, and often need to push even further to make theory work in practice. In others, we are applying well-known techniques to real-world situations (with real-world limitations) that have never been used in before, which requires skill, diligence, and honing a deep understanding of the underlying technologies.\nThe day-to-day\nReview code contributions, proposals, and RFCs from colleagues. At Helsing we strongly believe that unblocking others takes precedence over spending more time on your own work.\n\nOwn the user interface end-to-end, from early wireframes and prototypes through to production-ready code. You'll work closely with product and UX colleagues to shape how engineers interact with our tools.\n\nPropose and implement new features, capabilities, visualizations, or even full products across our stack. We encourage our engineers to look beyond their immediate team for missed opportunities, and to speak up when they identify one.\n\nTranslate complex technical data into usable, intuitive interfaces. You'll turn raw simulation outputs, test results, and AI behavior data into visualizations that engineers can actually understand and act on.\n\nEstablish and evolve our component library, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with our visual design standards across multiple front-ends.\n\nBecome a mentor, find a mentee, and help support and develop our interviewing pipeline. The people make or break the company, and we want as many engineers as possible to be part of fostering and growing the organisation.\n\nShare your experience and technical know-how with other Helsingers. We host tech talks, get together for smaller \"let's learn together\" groups, run topical office hours (e.g., on React, TypeScript), etc. to help each other get better with time.\n\nConnect with, understand, and make changes to backend systems as needed. Our backends are primarily written in Rust, and you'll need to be comfortable navigating unfamiliar codebases to unblock yourself and improve integrations.\n\nFurther develop our tests and benchmarks, both at the micro and macro level. We operate in a domain where robustness is of the utmost importance, and an extensive and ever-improving test suite is key to achieving that.\n\nPresent your work at our weekly demo sessions. We want engineers to come together around what they are working on and to feel like they are not endlessly squirrelling away at something that doesn't matter. To that end, we host (and actively work towards) demo sessions that allow early feedback, celebration of progress, and a better shared understanding of everything that goes on at Helsing.\n\nYou should apply if you\nHave strong frontend design and coding experience with JavaScript.\n\nHave state-of-the-art experience with frameworks like React.\n\nEnjoy designing for technical products and data-heavy UIs, and have strong user research and prototyping skills.\n\nAre experienced with APIs and server-client communication like REST and GraphQL.\n\nAre comfortable working with unfamiliar backends, ideally with some exposure to languages like Rust.\n\nCan write legible, maintainable, and performant code.\n\nCommunicate well in English, both verbally and in writing.\n\nEnjoy collaborating with others, including reviewing code and pair programming.\n\nAre comfortable working asynchronously (writing PRs and RFCs, having discussions by email).\n\nStrive to improve yourself, your peers, and the culture you work in over time.\n\nFeel like ethical considerations are an inherent part of engineering.\n\nNote: We operate at an intersection where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.\nNice to have\nSignificant recent experience with React.\n\nWorking knowledge of Next.js/SSR and its strengths and weaknesses.\n\nEstablished understanding of modern JS bundlers, such as Vite.\n\nExperience with styling utility-class libraries such as TailwindCSS.\n\nData visualization expertise (e.g., D3.js, custom charting, or complex dashboard design).\n\nBackground in designing software for aerospace, defense, or AI end users.\n\nExperience with simulation, model monitoring, or developer tools.\n\nJoin Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields\nHelsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns. \n\nThe 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. \n\nOur 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. \n\nIn 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. \n\nWe 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 practise 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. \n\nWhat we offer\nA focus on outcomes, not time-tracking\n\nCompetitive compensation and VSOP options\n\nRelocation support\n\nSocial and education allowances\n\nRegular company events and all-hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe\n\nHelsing 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. 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