Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

The role

You will lead the Engineering Infrastructure team in Paris. You will act as a management layer between R&D modules and leadership to build high-performing teams and standardize work processes.

What you will do

• Act as a dedicated people manager for engineers.
• Oversee performance reviews, career growth, and training initiatives.
• Own the recruitment process to build and maintain an effective engineering team.
• Develop and implement standardized work processes across CI/CD, test-bench, and developer-tooling teams.
• Audit and improve internal tooling.
• Contribute to the organizational structure by reorganizing modules.
• Collaborate with leadership to build the company vision.

Required qualifications

• Strong academic record in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Previous experience as an Individual Contributor who transitioned into a management role.
• Direct experience leading a platform-engineering or developer-experience team at a hardware-plus-software company.
• Proven ownership of CI/CD, build infrastructure, and hardware test infrastructure.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing and lab automation.
• Served at least 50 engineering customers in a previous role.
• Desire to remain engaged with technical aspects of the work.
• Exceptional soft skills and communication abilities.
• 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission.
• Readiness to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

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.