Software Engineer - Database Systems

Helsing was built to keep our democracies from harm. We believe that software – and artificial intelligence in particular – will be the key capability to do just that. Our mission is to attract Europe’s best mission-driven tech talent and apply their capabilities to some of the most complex problems in defence technology.

We are looking for people with their heart in the right place, who share our conviction that our democratic values are worth protecting, for ourselves and for future generations. We are a diverse team of software engineers, deep learning specialists and customer-facing programme managers, working on some of the most challenging problems in the defence space.

We care about our work and mission, and we welcome open and transparent discussions about the use of AI, its benefits and its ethical implications.

All AI systems rely on solid data foundations. Consequently, Helsing systems manage large quantities of heterogeneous data: streams of sensor data, geo-temporal information, inferences produced by AI systems, ML training data, and many more. We run a variety of workloads, from simple CRUD access patterns a la OLTP, to stream processing, to geo-temporal queries, to ML training and OLAP, to logic-programming-inspired probabilistic inference.

Our systems live on edge devices and on data centers and on anything in between; as such, we are building real-time in-memory systems on the one end of the spectrum, and scale-out cloud-based storage and compute clusters on the other. We care about storage density, performance, and military-grade resilience and reliability.

We are looking for experts with proven industry, academic, or open-source expertise to help us design and implement these systems, sometimes by selecting and assembling the right off-the-shelf components, and more often by building bespoke systems from the ground up. We are looking for individual contributors as well as team leads.

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