Jobs at Harmattan AI

Lead the Guidance and Control module for autonomous aircraft, owning team development, technical roadmap, requirements, interfaces, guidance and control design, and flight verification. The role involves hiring and mentoring engineers, setting priorities, validating motion planning and control laws across airframes, coordinating with systems and flight-test teams, and diagnosing flight-test data.

Lead Harmattan AI’s Guidance and Control module for autonomous high-speed aircraft. Own the team, roadmap, technical direction, interfaces, requirements, and delivery. Guide motion planning, trajectory generation, flight modes, failsafes, and control-law design across airframes. Oversee verification through flight-test campaigns and flight-log analysis while hiring and developing engineers and coordinating with product, systems, and flight-test teams.

Leads the Guidance & Control module for autonomous high-speed aircraft, owning the team, roadmap, technical direction, interfaces, and delivery. Responsibilities include motion planning, trajectory generation, guidance and control law design, flight-mode and failsafe behavior, verification, and flight-test campaigns. The role requires hiring and developing engineers, managing milestones and trade-offs, reviewing flight data, and ensuring guidance and control software performs reliably on real multirotor or fixed-wing vehicles.

Design, build, test, deploy, and debug end-to-end software solutions for military and organizational partners. Translate ambiguous operational requirements into working applications, integrate partner systems, validate field data flows, deploy onsite, gather operator feedback, and iterate rapidly. Collaborate with platform engineering teams to incorporate proven capabilities into core products while maintaining strong relationships with technical teams and end users.

Designs embedded compute modules, baseboards, and test boards from architecture and schematics through layout, fabrication, bring-up, qualification, and production. Responsibilities include high-speed digital design, power architecture, signal integrity, verification planning, board troubleshooting, thermal/vibration/EMC/ESD qualification, and manufacturing collaboration. The role partners with software, mechanical, and validation teams to deliver flight-qualified hardware for autonomous defense systems.

Design and own system-on-module, baseboard, and test-board hardware from architecture and schematics through layout guidance, fabrication, bring-up, qualification, and production. Responsibilities include high-speed digital design, signal integrity, power trees, design reviews, manufacturing coordination, verification planning, board troubleshooting, and thermal, vibration, EMC, and ESD qualification. The role also involves collaboration with software, mechanical, validation, and manufacturing teams for mission-critical defense platforms.

Support Product and Program Operations by identifying bottlenecks, deploying AI-powered workflows, building competitive intelligence tools, maintaining KPI dashboards, assisting PLM implementation, structuring product catalogs, and supporting configuration management. The intern will help standardize tools and processes while collaborating with product, program, engineering, and development teams in a fast-paced defense technology environment.

Develop and own real-time gimbal control and GNC software for custom microcontrollers and embedded Linux platforms. Build diagnostic and PC tooling, analyze telemetry, support calibration and performance investigations, and lead flight-test preparation and field evaluations. Collaborate with software, GNC, mechanical, hardware, and industrialization teams while defining robust software architecture and mentoring junior engineers.

Owns field deployment of defense software by integrating platforms with customer systems, developing connectors, configuring and customizing applications, managing on-premises releases, troubleshooting operational issues, and documenting deployments. Works directly with customer technical teams, validates end-to-end data flows, and feeds reusable integration needs back to the core product team. The role requires substantial domestic and international travel and autonomous work in mission-critical environments.

Plan and run real-world flight test campaigns, lead live flight demonstrations, train end-users, support hardware/software debugging, and deploy autonomous systems including C2 and RF integration for mission readiness.

Lead the creation of Harmattan AI’s UAS engineering organization in Rabat, managing approximately 50 people across six engineering modules. Own the complete technical chain from airframe and propulsion through avionics, launchers, ground systems, qualification, flight testing, and series production. Build the local supplier ecosystem, recruit and mentor engineering leaders, deliver contractual milestones, and manage relationships with executives, program leadership, and defense customers.

Plan material requirements, generate and monitor supplier purchase orders, optimize inventory parameters, and maintain ERP master data. Monitor supplier delivery performance, identify supply risks, coordinate discrepancy resolution, and develop reports and dashboards covering inventory health and forecast accuracy. Collaborate with Procurement, Production, and Logistics teams while leading process improvements and mitigation plans.

Designs embedded compute modules, baseboards, and test boards from system architecture through production. Responsibilities include high-speed digital design, power-tree development, schematic and layout guidance, design reviews, manufacturing collaboration, board bring-up, troubleshooting, and thermal, vibration, EMC, and ESD qualification. The role collaborates with software, mechanical, and validation teams to deliver flight-ready defense hardware.

Leads automation and industrialization from prototype through high-volume serial production. Owns manufacturing roadmaps, process and line architecture, DFM/DFA, tooling, test equipment, automation suppliers, commissioning, validation, capacity optimization, and production readiness. Standardizes and replicates production systems across international sites while developing a technically strong team and scaling defense hardware manufacturing.

Designs mechanical structures, packaging, thermal solutions, shielding, and cable routing for RF and high-power electronic warfare systems. Owns mechanical design from concept through prototyping, validation, and field deployment while coordinating with hardware, software, GNC, and machine learning teams. Contributes to system reviews, architecture decisions, documentation, and design traceability.

Provide strategic executive assistance to founders, managing complex international calendars, communications, briefings, travel, stakeholder relationships, and follow-through on key initiatives. The role requires bilingual French and English communication, discretion, sound judgment, proactive problem-solving, and coordination across government, investor, defense, and internal stakeholders in a fast-paced, on-site Paris environment.

Design, assemble, and commission robotics and automation cells on a mixed-model assembly line. Integrate robots, sensors, and PLCs; manage integrators and suppliers from RFQ through FAT/SAT; monitor cell performance, drive OEE improvements, and iterate on automation during production ramp-up.

Lead Harmattan AI's U.S. manufacturing strategy, manage industrial partnerships, ensure production quality, and drive process improvements in a dynamic environment.

Support deployment and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes at a greenfield drone production plant. Implement lean tools, conduct time studies, write work instructions, support Odoo MES routings, and contribute to line design, kaizen actions, and automation prioritisation.

Lead end-to-end system architecture for multi-system robotic defense platforms. Define system-of-systems designs, verify sizing via simulations, govern integration and specifications, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and institutionalize validation and documentation processes.