Good opportunities for growth - Research Engineer Helm.ai Employee Review

4.0
18 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, especially from a small startup. Fully remote. Talented peers to learn from. Work / life balance can be good, but depends on team.

Cons

Inconsistent communication from leadership. Legacy code base and growing technical debt. No 401k matching.

Explore other reviews about Helm.ai

5.0
11 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Incredibly talented team, with deep expertise in AI, mathematics, software scaling, and mechanical engineering. - Work at the forefront of AV development. - Very fast paced environment, with project turn arounds of a month or less. - Remote team, with almost around the clock team support given the global network. - Team holiday parties and get together for project deliveries to get to know your team mates. - I approve of the CEO and leadership team.

Cons

- At times it may be a lot of work. However, for a team of this size, and for the technology being developed, it is understandably necessary in order to stay at the forefront of AV. Personally, I enjoyed the amount of work and was able to learn and grow a lot.

2.0
18 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is good. You're free to go to the office or not whenever you want. Cloud training infrastructure is solid.

Cons

Everyone is miserable: cameras are almost always off at all meetings so you feel like working with ghosts. You'll have a lot of manual labeling to do, which is quickly mentally draining (it's also utterly stupid to pay ML engineers to do that kind of menial work). You're expected to be available to work on weekends, since management is incapable of managing deadlines properly. The code base is a mess, and no one seems interested in fixing it. You will work on projects with zero vision of how your models will be used.

5
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All