Environmental Test Laboratory Manager
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 Validation Laboratory Module Lead, you build Harmattan's environmental test laboratory from a blank page and then run it. Today too much of our environmental testing depends on external labs and their scheduling, which slows our development down as much as it costs us. Your mission is to change that, and you own it end to end: defining the capabilities we need, specifying and buying the machines, contributing to the choice of premises, recruiting and leading the technicians, and drawing the line between what we bring in-house and what stays external.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role, and the lab does not exist yet. Beyond building it, you become the Gr
