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title: "Automated Testing Module Lead"
company: "Harmattan AI"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/harmattan-ai"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/harmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead-4b0798a7-4ca4-40b3-afd1-ecdc7ae19fbc"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harmattan-ai/b32f7dbe-9e6c-470e-83cb-8701c21be672"
workplace: onsite
location: "Paris"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: lead
role: other
region: europe
skills: ["cpp", "docker", "linux", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-18T07:55:01.757Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-18T08:25:54.307Z
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# Automated Testing Module Lead

**Harmattan AI** · Paris

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harmattan-ai/b32f7dbe-9e6c-470e-83cb-8701c21be672

## About Harmattan AI

Coordinated Saturation at the Edge

## About the role

##### 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 Automated Testing Module Lead, you take ownership of how Harmattan validates its autonomy and flight-software stack. Today, our software is validated mostly against real hardware, a process that consumes airframes, range time, and crew while sampling only a handful of nominal trajectories. The cases we actually build for, such as degraded GNSS, sensor dropout, electronic warfare, and multi-agent situations, are rarely reached economically that way. Your mission is to establish the scenario library, execution strategy, and interface bricks to turn our existing simulation platform into a fast, reliable, and continuous validation engine.

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role. You inherit an active team of four engineers across Paris and Lausanne, with a target of around eight by mid-2027. Beyond leading the team, you become the technical authority on our scenario-based testing: defining what runs across SITL, HITL, and CI, holding critical technical boundaries with adjacent teams, and bridging the gap between simulation fidelity and real flight data.

**What You Will Do**

- Team Leadership & Strategy: Take over, structure, and give a clear mandate to our existing team of four engineers, while building the case and the roadmap to scale the module to around eight by mid-2027.Scenario & Simulation Engineering: Drive the design of a versioned scenario library covering nominal, edge, off-nominal, and contested flight conditions, expanding into Monte Carlo and multi-agent testing, and bring a team with no prior simulation experience up that curve.

- Execution Strategy & Gating: Establish what tests run across SITL, HITL, and CI, defining gating policies, telemetry capture, deterministic replay, and coverage analytics.

- Interface & Boundary Ownership: Negotiate, then maintain, strong, written technical boundaries with Tooling (who provide the simulation platform) and co-ownership splits with Validation (who define acceptance criteria and own final sign-off).

- Sim-to-Real Correlation: Correlate simulation models against real flight data to continuously measure and close the sim-to-real gap, ensuring green test gates reflect real-world flight readiness.**What We Are Looking For**

- Experience: 8+ years in automated testing, simulation-based validation, or test engineering for complex physical / hardware-in-the-loop systems (e.g., Autonomous Driving, Aerospace, Defense, Robotics).Scenario & Simulation Depth: Hands-on experience designing scenario-based test suites on a simulation platform and defining coverage that genuinely catches defects. This is the capability our current team lacks, and therefore the most valuable thing you can bring.

- Technical Depth: Hands-on proficiency in Python, C++, Linux, Docker, and CI environments, with deep domain expertise in scenario design, SITL/HITL execution, and simulation tools.

- Leadership & Ownership: Proven ability to step into an existing engineering team, establish immediate clarity, and manage distributed engineers (Paris and Lausanne) effectively**, including engineers more senior than you in years of experience**.

- Validation Mindset: A rigorous, analytical approach to noisy physical metrics, false positives, and flaky test environments, instinctively questioning what a passing test proves.

- Cross-Functional Diplomacy: Track record of defining and holding clear interfaces with platform providers and internal customer teams.Bonus: Background in defense/aerospace flight software, control systems, or experience closing sim-to-real fidelity gaps.

- Location & Travel: Based in Paris or Lausanne, with travel between sites. Working-level English.**What We Offer**

- Immediate Impact: Take over an established mandate with an existing team and pre-built simulation platform, delivering test capability in weeks rather than building from scratch.

- High System Scope: Own the entire scenario library and execution strategy across our autonomy stack.Direct Mission Impact: Build test pipelines that directly accelerate the deployment of resilient autonomous systems in real-world defense environments.Cross-Functional Ownership: Work closely with Tooling, Validation, GNC, Perception, and Embedded SW teams to shape the future of flight-software reliability.We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.

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