Software Engineer - Ground to Air HMI

About the role

Our Ground to Air HMI enables air forces to operate autonomous systems in missions. We 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.

What you'll do

• Review 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.
• Propose and implement new features, capabilities, algorithms, infrastructure, or even full products across our stack.
• Become a mentor, find a mentee, and help support and develop our interviewing pipeline.
• Share your experience and technical know-how with other Helsingers via tech talks, "let's learn together" groups, and topical office hours.
• Maintain our existing software stack (Rust, Python, and TypeScript), working with internal and external customers to identify issues, improving operational reliability and performance, and fending off technical debt.
• Further develop our tests and benchmarks, both at the micro and macro level.
• Present your work at our weekly demo sessions.

What you'll need

• Can write legible, maintainable, and performant code.
• Communicate well in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Enjoy collaborating with others, including reviewing code and pair programming.
• Are comfortable working asynchronously (writing PRs and RFCs, having discussions by email).
• Are familiar with backend interface tools like REST APIs, webRTC, gRPC/Protocol Buffers, and Arrow.
• Strive to improve yourself, your peers, and the culture you work in over time.
• Feel like ethical considerations are an inherent part of engineering.

Nice to have

• Development experience with a language like Rust, Java, Go, or C++.
• State-of-the-art experience with frameworks like React.
• Experience in designing long-lived protocols and data schemas for system integration.
• Experience building aviation software according to DALs and standards like DO-278.
• Knowledge about NATO UCS standards like STANAG 4586/AEP-84.
• Knowledge about metrics tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Experience with production ML systems.