Helsing

Machine Learning Engineer, Detection and Tracking

Helsing · Washington, DC

Posted 29 days ago

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This role has been open
29 days
Helsing's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Helsing's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Helsing
high
90 stale, 3 reposted of 141 open
Hiring momentum
187 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

In this role, you will be responsible for the detection and tracking models that power Helsing's products, focusing on training, tuning, and deploying these models using US-specific datasets. Your daily tasks will include managing the full model lifecycle, optimizing models for deployment on constrained platforms, and collaborating with systems engineers to integrate your work into the broader AI-powered drone software platform, Altra.

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What you need

  • 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning or computer vision
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; Master's or PhD strongly preferred
  • Production experience training and deploying object detection models
  • Proficient in Python and PyTorch or a comparable deep learning framework
  • Strong intuition for data quality
  • Experience with the full model training lifecycle: data curation, annotation management, training, evaluation, and deployment

Nice to have

  • Strong proficiency in Rust or C++ for production model deployment and optimization
  • Experience with multiple sensor modalities — particularly infrared or thermal imaging
  • Familiarity with MLOps tooling: experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), dataset versioning, model registries
  • Experience with annotation tools and workflows (CVAT, Label Studio, or similar)
  • Background in computer vision beyond detection — segmentation, pose estimation, activity recognition

What you get

  • Generous compensation and benefits package including insurance coverage (medical and travel)
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position

Worth weighing

  • No specific salary listed
  • Work involves unique technical requirements and constraints
  • Emphasis on ethical and geopolitical considerations in the role
  • Company is relatively young but has secured significant government contracts

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Listed by Helsing on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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