Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Daedalean AG

📍 Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Full-time Ingenieurwesen und Technik Posted February 24, 2026

Job Description

About us:

Daedalean AG is the artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy hub of Destinus Group, a rapidly growing European defense and aerospace company developing the next generation of autonomous drones, effectors, and flight systems. Based in Zurich, the 100+ team develops safety-critical AI for aviation at the intersection of world‑class research and real hardware. Its expertise spans computer vision, deep learning, and onboard reasoning – systems that can perceive the world, understand it, and make decisions in real time.

Your role:

To technically guide the Machine Learning engineering team and help build the first certified AI avionics.

Your tasks:

  • Actively contribute to the application-level development and verification of our flagship Visual Traffic Detection system.
  • Oversee our Machine Learning certification strategy.
  • Maintain and grow our data processing and ML training infrastructure.