As the Director of Engineering at Harmattan AI, you will build and lead an engineering organisation with various engineering modules from the ground up.

Organisation Building: Stand up the engineering group including hiring key engineering roles.

Project Management: Act as a project manager handling the delivery of key milestones.

Technical Ownership: Own the full technical chain across airframe, propulsion, avionics, launcher and ground segment, through to flight test and trials.

People Management & Mentorship: Manage managers while staying close to the engineering, run regular design reviews across multiple disciplines.

Supplier Ecosystem: Develop a supplier base.

Candidate Requirements

Educational Background: An MSc in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or a strongly related engineering field. A track record of building organisations will outweigh the degree.

Proven Leadership: An engineer who moved into management and then into managing managers.

Experience: 10+ years, with at least 4 in engineering management. You have stood up or materially scaled an engineering site, including hiring at pace.

Track Record: You have taken a hardware system through qualification and into series production. Background in UAV, autonomous systems or advanced robotics.

Technical Engagement: While this is a leadership role, you remain credible across every discipline in the group without claiming depth in any, and you take written positions on the cross-module questions no one else will close.

Director of Engineering - US Region

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

Harmattan AI

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