Lead RF Engineer - Electronic Warfare

The role

You will own the delivery of electronic warfare and signal intelligence systems from concept to field deployment. You will work with project managers and technical leads to translate mission needs into system-level designs and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.

What you will do

• Build, maintain and manage a cross disciplinary Electronic Warfare Engineering Team
• Drive architecture and implementation of Electronic Warfare Systems
• Lead cross-functional design across mechanical, electrical, software, GNC, and ML teams
• Conduct feasibility studies, trade-off analyses, and system-level simulations
• Oversee system integration, prototyping, and validation
• Drive design and architecture reviews
• Implement processes to enhance requirements traceability, system documentation, and validation workflows

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in RF system engineering of Radio/Radar/GNSS and other Sensors within robotics, aerospace, or defense sectors
• MSc in Engineering
• Proven experience leading full system lifecycles (concept to prototype to validation)
• Strong background in RF, GNSS and Radar system architecture, requirements engineering, and system level trade-off analysis
• RF Signal Intelligence gathering and analysis for classification and AI training
• Broad engineering culture with understanding of mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and managing technical interfaces
• Rigorous, structured, and mission-driven mindset with strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities

Nice to have

• Experience in Technology leadership in EW/SIGINT
• PhD
• Experience in Team leadership

About the company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, they are expanding teams to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.