Director of Engineering, UAS Development

The role

You will build and lead an engineering organisation with various engineering modules from the ground up. You will own the full technical chain and take the system through qualification and into series production.

What you will do

• Stand up the engineering group including hiring key engineering roles
• Act as a project manager handling the delivery of key milestones
• Own the full technical chain across airframe, propulsion, avionics, launcher and ground segment, through to flight test and trials
• Manage managers while staying close to the engineering
• Run regular design reviews across multiple disciplines
• Develop a supplier base

Required qualifications

• MSc in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical or a strongly related engineering field
• Engineer who moved into management and then into managing managers
• 10+ years of experience
• At least 4 years in engineering management
• Experience standing up or materially scaling an engineering site including hiring at pace
• Track record of taking a hardware system through qualification and into series production
• Background in UAV, autonomous systems or advanced robotics
• Credible across every discipline in the group
• 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission of building autonomous defence systems

About the company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.