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title: "Lead Warhead Engineer"
company: "Harmattan AI"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/harmattan-ai"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/harmattan-ai-lead-warhead-engineer-8efc3001-5cfb-4d43-8144-d695c01509c4"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harmattan-ai/52b5a792-b72c-4b4c-bf03-c4ed977149da"
workplace: onsite
location: "Paris"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: lead
role: software-engineering
region: europe
date_posted: 2026-08-18T09:52:22.058Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:20:32.902Z
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# Lead Warhead Engineer

**Harmattan AI** · Paris

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harmattan-ai/52b5a792-b72c-4b4c-bf03-c4ed977149da

## About Harmattan AI

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## 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 Lead Warhead Engineer at Harmattan AI, you will be the technical authority for all warhead developments related to Harmattan’s products, arbitrating design trade-offs across energetics, safety and arming, mechanical integration and testing. You will act as the primary interface between the warhead team and program & product, operations and customer stakeholders. You will shape the engineering standards, the supplier base and the development approach that will allow Harmattan to design, qualify, manufacture and scale warheads at a pace the traditional ecosystem cannot match.

#### Responsibilities

- Technical Leadership: Own the warhead architecture and design trade-offs across all developments; arbitrate technical decisions between energetics, electronics & safety, mechanical, and test disciplines, from requirement to manufactured product; define engineering standards and design review practices.

- Supply Chain Design: Define and build the warhead supply chain (energetic materials, loading, machining, test capacity) with scalability as a design requirement from day one.

- Program Interface: Act as the warhead authority towards program, product and customers; translate mission and effectiveness requirements into warhead specifications and development plans.

- Development Oversight: Drive developments from concept through design, testing, qualification and industrialization on cycles measured in days and months; manage timelines, risks and technical maturity at each milestone.

- Compliance and Safety: Ensure compliance with pyrotechnic regulations of our customers’ countries and applicable NATO safety and qualification standards (MIL-STD, STANAG) throughout the product lifecycle.

- Ecosystem Relations: Build and manage relationships with test centers, energetic materials suppliers and industrial partners.

#### Candidate Requirements

- Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Energetics, Physics or a related field, with at least 10 years of experience in warhead or munitions development.

- Deep knowledge of the munitions ecosystem: ex. DGA, prime contractors, state test centers and the applicable regulatory framework.

- Proven track record of leading warhead or munitions developments through qualification and into serial production.

- Strong knowledge of NATO safety and qualification standards (MIL-STD, STANAG) for munitions.

- Experience across several warhead architectures is highly desirable.

- Demonstrated ability to arbitrate complex technical trade-offs under schedule pressure and to defend decisions towards programs and customers.

- Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience building or managing engineering teams.

- Eligibility for French national security clearance.We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.

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