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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.\nOur 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.\nAbout the Role\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You Will Do\nTeam 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.\nScenario & 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.\n\nExecution Strategy & Gating: Establish what tests run across SITL, HITL, and CI, defining gating policies, telemetry capture, deterministic replay, and coverage analytics.\n\nInterface & 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).\n\nSim-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.\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\nExperience: 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).\nScenario & 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.\n\nTechnical 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.\n\nLeadership & 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**.\n\nValidation Mindset: A rigorous, analytical approach to noisy physical metrics, false positives, and flaky test environments, instinctively questioning what a passing test proves.\n\nCross-Functional Diplomacy: Track record of defining and holding clear interfaces with platform providers and internal customer teams.\nBonus: Background in defense/aerospace flight software, control systems, or experience closing sim-to-real fidelity gaps.\n\nLocation & Travel: Based in Paris or Lausanne, with travel between sites. Working- level English.\n\nWhat We Offer\nImmediate 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.\n\nHigh System Scope: Own the entire scenario library and execution strategy across our autonomy stack.\nDirect Mission Impact: Build test pipelines that directly accelerate the deployment of resilient autonomous systems in real-world defense environments.\nCross-Functional Ownership: Work closely with Tooling, Validation, GNC, Perception, and Embedded SW teams to shape the future of flight-software reliability.\n\nWe look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4947,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Military Drones","Defense Manufacturing","Defense AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T10:12:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.621,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":38,"expected_fill_days":74,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/harmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/harmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T18:12:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8078,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":8839},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=8839"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fharmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fharmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fharmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/harmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fharmattan-ai-automated-testing-module-lead"}]}