DevOps - Continuous Integration at Harmattan AI (Paris, France)
Harmattan AI· Paris, France·
Role details
Harmattan AI at a glance
France's first defense-tech unicorn, building attritable AI-piloted strike, interception, and ISR drones for allied militaries.
Harmattan AI is a vertically integrated defense prime building autonomous drone systems for allied militaries. It designs the full stack, from airframes and payloads to embedded compute and the autonomy algorithms that let drones sense, decide, and act at the edge without GPS or a network link, coordinated across a swarm by its mission-orchestration layer.
$242M raised · latest: Series B · $200M · January 2026 · backed by Dassault Aviation, FirstMark Capital, Atlantic, Motier Ventures
Summary
Harmattan AI seeks a DevOps Engineer to own continuous integration infrastructure, improving developer productivity and software quality for autonomous defense systems. The role involves designing CI/CD pipelines, integrating AI agents, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to remove friction.
Job description
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
Harmattan AI is developing advanced autonomous drone systems and payloads for defense applications. As the company scales fast and our software codebase grows even faster, we need a DevOps engineer to improve developer productivity and experience and keep the embedded software quality at a high level. Working across all of our software teams, you will own the continuous integration infrastructure that lets our engineers ship reliable code at pace.
Responsibilities
- Continuous Integration: Design, build, and maintain the CI/CD pipelines that compile, test, and deliver our software.
- Visibility & Alerting: Build feedback tools, such as dashboards and notification/alert systems, that surface build, test, and pipeline status to the right people at the right time.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with software developers across every team, as well as Validation, and the GNC, ML, and Perception teams, to understand their workflows, gather their needs, and turn them into practical tooling solutions.
- AI in the Pipeline: Integrate and deploy AI agents within the CI.
- Developer Productivity & Quality: Track the overall health of the development workflow, and spot bottlenecks and quality issues.
- Documentation & Standards: Document the tooling you build and help standardize development best practices across teams.
Candidate requirements
- GitHub & CI/CD: Proficiency with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including writing and maintaining workflows in the Actions YAML syntax to automate builds and tests.
- Technical proficiency: Confident writing automation in Bash and Python, and comfortable working in a Linux environment with Docker.
- Past experience: Significant experience in embedded software development, using languages such as C/C++.
- Build systems: Solid hands-on experience with build systems such as CMake, and the ability to debug and maintain build configurations.
- Educational background: MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a similar technical field; equivalent professional experience is equally valued.
Nice to have
- A background in robotics, to better understand the needs and activities of the R&D teams.
- Experience setting up automated test benches and/or functional testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with agentic coding tools and their advanced configuration.
Mindset
- Service-oriented: You treat developers across every team as your users, listening to their workflows and building tooling that removes their friction.
- Strong communicator & collaborator: You gather needs, explain trade-offs, and align many teams around shared standards.
- Pragmatic owner: You prioritize what matters most for the whole organization, ship incrementally, and take ownership of the reliability everyone depends on.
We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.
Why work at Harmattan AI
- Culture: “Elite builders” who “thrive on complexity, move with urgency, and own their work end to end.” Emphasis on purpose, technical excellence, and real‑world impact. harmattan.ai
- Values: Tackle the hardest problems, build what matters, move at the speed of relevance, and aim to redefine frontiers. harmattan.ai
- Work policy: Hybrid model with a mix of remote and on‑site; many roles are in‑office at locations in Paris, Lausanne, London, Arlington (TX), Wissous, Poland, UAE, and Morocco. builtin.com
- Engineering culture: Hands‑on development of mission‑critical autonomous systems; strong R&D focus across AI, computer vision, RF hardware, propulsion, and mission planning.
- Perks: Not explicitly listed, but the company highlights the opportunity to protect front‑line personnel and shape the future of autonomous defence.