Machine Learning Engineer, Detection and Tracking

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Helsing is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to own detection and tracking models for its AI-powered drone software platform, Altra. This applied ML role involves training, tuning, and deploying models on US-specific datasets, managing the full model lifecycle from data curation to edge deployment. The position requires strong intuition for model performance and data quality, with a focus on production reliability. U.S. citizenship is required.

• Train and fine-tune detection models (YOLO, DETR, Faster R-CNN, etc.) on mission-specific datasets
• Implement and improve multi-object tracking pipelines (SORT, DeepSORT, ByteTrack, etc.)
• Evaluate model performance by analyzing metrics, diagnosing failure modes, and iterating on improvements
• Manage the data pipeline end-to-end, including raw data assessment, annotation coordination, dataset curation, and augmentation
• Optimize models for deployment on SWaP-constrained and embedded platforms using quantization, pruning, TensorRT, and ONNX export
• Collaborate with systems engineers to integrate models into the Altra platform
• Work across sensor modalities such as electro-optical and infrared imaging

• 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning or computer vision