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Helsing is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural decisions and ship code across their backend systems, contributing to their mission of protecting democracies through AI. This role involves owning projects from prototyping to deploying resilient software on physical hardware, with a focus on designing robust systems and writing performance-optimized code. The ideal candidate is a systems-level thinker with senior-to-staff level backend development experience in languages like Rust, Java, Go, or C++, who can act as a technical multiplier and mentor within the team. You will work on highly resilient distributed systems, embedded hardware, and high-performance ML inference pipelines, while also translating complex technical designs for non-technical stakeholders.