Senior Electrical Engineer - UAV Embedded Systems

About the role

Harmattan AI builds autonomous and scalable defense systems and is expanding its teams after a $200M Series B. As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will design and develop electronic boards and embedded systems (SoM) for UAVs, such as flight controllers, companion computers and electronic speed controllers.

Key responsibilities

• Design high-performance embedded systems, defining architecture and integrating processors, DDR and Flash memory and peripherals such as embedded computers, sensors and video processing units.
• Create electronic schematics and perform board placement and routing, managing fast signal constraints.
• Work with the Mechanical Department to integrate boards physically into the final product.
• Collaborate with the GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control) team on accurate sensor integration.
• Resolve EMC challenges while ensuring signal integrity.
• Troubleshoot electrical and electronic boards and validate them through testing and performance checks.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience designing complex electronic systems.
• Proficiency with electronic test equipment.
• Experience with robotics or aerospace systems is a strong advantage.
• Ability to work autonomously and communicate clearly with people from junior members to senior executives.

Required skills

• In-depth knowledge of processors and memory domains (DDR, Flash).
• Electronic CAD tools such as Altium.