Director of Engineering - Infrastructure

Harmattan AI

ABOUT US 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, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces. Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected. About the Role As the Director of Engineering for Mission Intelligence at Harmattan AI, you will act as a vital management layer between R&D modules and leadership, focusing on elevating our people and standardising our engineering excellence. This is a "hands-off" people management role designed to relieve pressure on senior leadership by building high-performing teams, improving internal tooling, and standardising work processes across the company without sacrificing execution speed. You will be a visionary partner to our leadership, contributing to organisational structure and the long-term technical vision. In this role, you will lead our Mission Intelligence teams across Lausanne and Paris — covering multi-agent mission planning, semantic and geometric scene understanding, and the data acquisition infrastructure that supports them. Mission Intelligence turns sensor data and operational context into mission understanding, sitting between research and shipped product. Responsibilities * People Management & Mentorship: Act as a dedicated people manager for engineers, overseeing performance reviews, career growth, and training initiatives. * Recruitment: Own the recruitment process as the number one priority, building and maintaining an effective engineering team to meet our ambitious growth plans in a competitive AI and multi-agent talent market. * Process Standardisation: Develop and implement standardised work processes across ML, data, and applied AI engineering teams to ensure high-quality output and consistency. * Engineering Infrastructure: Audit and improve internal tooling—deciding between off-the-shelf and custom solutions—to ensure engineers have the best resources to succeed. * Organisational Strategy: Contribute to the organisational structure by reorganising modules and initiating changes to optimise cross-functional (XFN) delivery. * Vision & Execution: Collaborate with leadership to build the company vision, bringing fresh ideas to the table rather than just executing existing plans. Candidate Requirements * Educational Background: A strong academic record in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a related technical field. * Proven Leadership: Previous experience as an Individual Contributor (IC) who has successfully transitioned into a management role, allowing you to deeply understand the technical challenges your team faces. * Experience: Direct experience leading applied ML or autonomy engineering teams that have shipped production AI systems — not papers, not demos. Hands-on background in multi-agent systems, fleet orchestration, scene understanding, or mission planning is required; deep credibility in one or two of these is sufficient. * Technical Engagement: While this is a management-focused role, you should still possess a desire to "keep your hands dirty" and remain engaged with the technical aspects of the work. * Soft Skills & Communication: Exceptional soft skills and communication abilities, with a "high-bar" for excellence and a natural ability to elevate those around them. * Commitment: 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission of building autonomous defence systems and a readiness to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.

Harmattan AI

ABOUT US 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, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces. Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected. About the Role As the Director of Engineering for RF Systems at Harmattan AI, you will act as a vital management layer between R&D modules and leadership, focusing on elevating our people and standardising our engineering excellence. This is a "hands-off" people management role designed to relieve pressure on senior leadership by building high-performing teams, improving internal tooling, and standardising work processes across the company without sacrificing execution speed. You will be a visionary partner to our leadership, contributing to organisational structure and the long-term technical vision. In this role, you will lead our RF Systems teams in Paris — covering radar, radio, and electronic warfare. This is research-heavy, defence-critical engineering at the boundary of physics and product, operating under cleared-environment constraints that differ from commercial work. Responsibilities * People Management & Mentorship: Act as a dedicated people manager for engineers, overseeing performance reviews, career growth, and training initiatives. * Recruitment: Own the recruitment process as the number one priority, building and maintaining an effective engineering team to meet our ambitious growth plans in a scarce, cleared-defence RF and EW talent market. * Process Standardisation: Develop and implement standardised work processes across radar, radio, EW, and signal-processing teams to ensure high-quality output and consistency. * Engineering Infrastructure: Audit and improve internal tooling—deciding between off-the-shelf and custom solutions—to ensure engineers have the best resources to succeed. * Organisational Strategy: Contribute to the organisational structure by reorganising modules and initiating changes to optimise cross-functional (XFN) delivery. * Vision & Execution: Collaborate with leadership to build the company vision, bringing fresh ideas to the table rather than just executing existing plans. Candidate Requirements * Educational Background: A strong academic record in Electrical Engineering, RF, Signal Processing, or a related technical field. * Proven Leadership: Previous experience as an Individual Contributor (IC) who has successfully transitioned into a management role, allowing you to deeply understand the technical challenges your team faces. * Experience: Direct experience leading radar, RF, electronic warfare, or RF navigation engineering teams in a defence prime or cleared-environment scale-up. You have led at least one programme through qualification under MIL-STD, NATO STANAG, or TEMPEST discipline. Fluent French and English required; active or recent cleared status (FR, NL, UK, or EU equivalent) is a strong plus. * Technical Engagement: While this is a management-focused role, you should still possess a desire to "keep your hands dirty" and remain engaged with the technical aspects of the work. * Soft Skills & Communication: Exceptional soft skills and communication abilities, with a "high-bar" for excellence and a natural ability to elevate those around them. * Commitment: 100% dedication to Harmattan AI's mission of building autonomous defence systems and a readiness to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.

Scaleway

OUR STORY:   🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow ! Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.   Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.   With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.   Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen.   📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon.   WHY WE NEED YOU ?   Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Storage Tribe to lead the engineering department responsible for our foundational storage products. Your mission will be to define the global technological vision and orchestrate the engineering strategy in order to guarantee the performance, SLAs, and scalability of our distributed storage systems while managing a team of engineering managers and technical experts.   YOUR FUTURE TEAM   We work in a collaborative and international environment where the diversity of Scalers, combined with a spirit of sharing, helps bring new projects to life every day, advancing our ambitions together. You will be part of a team of 30 to 50 people. The Storage Tribe builds and operates the critical infrastructure that powers our customers' data needs at a massive scale. Managing hundreds of petabytes of data, the team develops homegrown object and block storage platforms using technologies like Ceph and distributed encoding. The team is organized into squads led by Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, covering low-level development, SRE, and production stability. Manager information: You will report directly to the Director of Engineering.   YOUR DAILY ROUTINE   - Strategic Leadership: Define and carry the global technological vision for the Storage department, challenging the technical direction of the scope. - Team Management: Manage and mentor a hierarchy of Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Contributors (30-50 Scalers), fostering a culture of benevolence and engineering excellence. - Operational Excellence: Guarantee the performance and reliability of our storage platforms, ensuring strict adherence to SLAs and production standards. - Architecture & Innovation: Drive decisions on low-level architecture and distributed systems, leveraging open-source technologies (Ceph, ZFS, NFS). - Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Product teams and other technical directions to align engineering output with business strategy and the sovereign cloud mission. - Crisis Management: Act as a high-level escalation point for critical technical incidents, applying pragmatic problem-solving ("rubber ducking") to resolve complex blockers. - Talent Development: Oversee recruitment and career paths, ensuring the growth of high-potential profiles in a specialized technical population.   ABOUT YOU   HARDSKILLS: - Experience: 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong background in low-level development, production, and storage systems. - Technical Mastery: Deep knowledge of storage technologies (Object Storage, Block Storage, Ceph, ZFS, NFS) and system programming (C, C++, Rust, or Go). - Systems Expertise: proficiency in Linux/FreeBSD internals and system profiling. - Open Source: A strong track record of contribution to or usage of open-source technologies. - Leadership: Proven experience managing managers and leading technical teams in a production environment.   SOFT SKILLS: - Benevolent Leader: You prioritize the well-being and growth of your team. - Pragmatic Problem Solver: You are an expert at "rubber ducking" and can simplify complex technical situations. - Abstract Thinking: You are capable of high-level abstraction while retaining a love for computers and deep-tech details. Open-Minded: You remain curious and adaptable in a fast-evolving cloud environment.   WHAT YOU WILL FIND AT SCALEWAY ++++ -Hybrid work: We offer up to 3 days of remote work per week. -Offices: Our offices are spacious, dynamic workspaces with bold design, conveniently located near public transport. Most of our offices feature outdoor spaces (terraces) and bike parking facilities. -Dining: Our chef provides a healthy meal service at the headquarters, and breakfast is available across all our sites year-round. Scalers working from regional sites enjoy a Swile card for lunches. -Well-being commitments: Whether it’s access to a gym, daycare places, or discounted services for caring services, Scaleway is committed to supporting Scalers in maintaining a balanced life. -International environment: With dozens of nationalities, Scaleway offers a stimulating environment where English is as widely spoken as French. -Career & Mobility: Our managers value internal mobility, and opportunities to transition to other entities within the Iliad Group are accessible to all Scalers.   🚀 Why join the Scaleway adventure? ✔ A rich and diverse product offering: Scaleway offers over 100 public cloud products in IaaS, PaaS, and AI. ✔ A cutting-edge technical environment: Scaleway provides modern infrastructures, including high-performance bare metal servers, to tackle exciting technical challenges. ✔ Commitment to responsible cloud: Scaleway is dedicated to a more responsible cloud, with data centers powered solely by renewable energy since 2017, minimizing our ecological footprint and holding top-level certification.   🔜 THE NEXT STEPS … - Discovery call with a recruiter (30 min) - Interview with the Director of Engineering to understand your technical skills and approach to the role (45 min) - Technical/Managerial interview to validate your expertise and leadership style - HR Interview to tour our offices and meet your future colleagues