Senior Team Lead, Airframe & Aerostructures
R&D
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.
Location: Rabat, Morocco - on site. Contract: Permanent, full time
ABOUT THE ROLE
As Senior Team Lead, Airframe & Aerostructures, you will own the structural design of a new composite airframe - from concept to production.
You will start embedded with our core Airframe engineering team to take design ownership, then build and lead a dedicated composite engineering team on site. You own the roadmap, the trade-offs and the transition into series manufacturing.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Airframe & Aerostructures Team: Build, lead and grow a composite engineering team on site - recruitment, onboarding, ramp-up, team structure and technical growth path.
- Composite Structural Design: Drive the structural design of composite airframe structures from concept through production, including laminates, joints, inserts and tooling strategy.
- Prototyping & Industrialisation: Drive fast in-house composite prototyping and carry designs into series manufacturing processes.
- Trade-Off & Design Analysis: Own system-level trade-offs across mass budget, thermal performance and manufacturing cost.
- Roadmap Ownership: Define and own the airframe roadmap - scope, milestones, priorities and trade-offs from prototype to production handover.
- Technical Coordination: Lead cross-functional design with the core Airframe team, Simulation/FEA, Industrialisation, propulsion, avionics and ground segment teams.
- Suppliers: Manage manufacturing partners and suppliers so d…