Software Engineer, Rust

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining Rust services across the Altra platform
• Collaborating with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML pipelines into the broader system
• Working across the stack, from networking and protocol implementation to application-level services
• Contributing to increasingly advanced autonomy features
• Developing and testing software using simulation environments
• Writing software that must perform reliably on resource-constrained platforms under real-world constraints

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems-level software engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proficiency in Rust, C++, or another systems-level compiled language
• Experience building distributed systems in unreliable or constrained network environments
• Experience with real-time or low-latency systems
• Experience with video streaming, pub/sub messaging, sensor data processing, embedded systems, protocol design, or robotics
• Experience designing or building systems that interface with AI/ML pipelines
• Familiarity with Python for interfacing with ML/AI components
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Rust in production systems
• Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or drone systems
• Experience with sensor fusion or multi-sensor data processing
• Familiarity with swarming, multi-agent systems, or decentralized coordination algorithms
• Experience with constrained or embedded platforms
• Familiarity with Nix or NixOS
• Experience with SITL/HITL simulation and testing frameworks
• Experience with RF communications, telemetry, or datalink systems
• Background in defense or national security

About the Company

Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. We build Altra, an AI-powered drone software platform, and HX-2, our autonomous drone.