Lead RF Engineer - Electronic Warfare

About the role

Harmattan AI is seeking a Lead RF Engineer to own the delivery of electronic warfare and signal intelligence systems from concept to field deployment. You will translate mission needs into system-level designs and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure system performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and manage a cross disciplinary Electronic Warfare Engineering Team.
• Drive architecture and implementation of Electronic Warfare Systems and ensure state of the art knowledge in EW/SIGINT.
• Lead cross-functional design across mechanical, electrical, software, GNC, and ML teams.
• Conduct feasibility studies, trade-off analyses, and system-level simulations to guide technical choices.
• Oversee system integration, prototyping, and validation, ensuring performance targets are achieved.
• Drive design and architecture reviews, maintaining consistency between requirements, design, and testing.
• Implement processes to enhance requirements traceability, system documentation, and validation workflows.

Required skills

• RF system engineering
• Radio
• Radar
• GNSS
• System architecture
• Requirements engineering
• Trade-off analysis
• RF Signal Intelligence
• System integration
• Prototyping
• Validation

Nice to have

• Technology leadership
• Team leadership

Qualifications

• MSc in Engineering
• PhD

About the Company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is valued at $1.4 billion and focuses on delivering mission-critical systems to allied forces.