# System Identification Engineer

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 Every airframe Harmattan AI flies starts with a model. System identification turns flight data into the verified dynamics that guidance and control are designed, tuned and trained on. It is the foundation of an autopilot that adapts across multirotors, fixed wings, VTOLs and missiles. As a System Identification Engineer, working out of Lausanne, you will own the path from flight test to identified model. You will design and run your own experiments, build a repeatable identification pipeline, and deliver models the G&C team can trust. Responsibilities Experiment Design & Flight Test: Plan and run your own ide

- **Id**: 3838940
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/harmattan-ai-system-identification-engineer-2>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lausanne, Switzerland
- **Countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:38:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T07:11:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4154
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 8839
- **Name**: Harmattan AI
- **Domain**: harmattan.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/harmattan>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 139
- **Ghost share**: 0.165
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 69
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:58:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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