Industrial Software Deployment Engineer 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
Design and maintain software systems, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure automation for internal production assets including engineering workstations and IIoT components. The role focuses on ensuring a high-performance, reproducible, and scalable environment to support R&D and manufacturing teams.
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
As an Industrial Software Deployment Engineer, you will own how software is delivered to our production line and kept up to date. Our line operates a fleet of test benches, workstations, and industrial compute nodes, each of which must be reliably installable, updatable, and recoverable. You will be responsible for packaging, rollout, versioning, and rollback, as well as rebuilding stations from scratch when required. You will develop and maintain production-grade Python tooling and operate it on physical machines in a factory environment rather than on cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Deployment tooling – Write the Python tooling and automation (Ansible, Docker) that makes any station reproducible and recoverable from scratch.
- Fleet management – Design and build the systems that roll out, version, monitor, and roll back software across a heterogeneous fleet of stations, IPCs, and industrial compute nodes, including machines with limited or unreliable connectivity.
- Scalable CI/CD for Production – Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) that support the rapid delivery of automation tools and inspection software to the factory floor.
- Enable the floor – Give operators and field engineers simple, safe ways to deploy and recover stations without needing you.
- Cross-Team Collaboration – Work with R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality, and be accountable for your software running on the line, not just passing CI.
Candidate Requirements
- MSc in Software, Electrical, Computer Science, or a related engineering field.
- 3+ years of professional experience in a software engineering role with a heavy focus on infrastructure, DevOps, or industrial automation.
- Strong Python – You have built and maintained production tools or services, not just scripts.
- Containerization Mastery – Hands-on experience deploying software at scale using Docker and orchestration tools.
- Fleet & Config Management – Experience with tools like Ansible for workstation configuration or IIoT platforms for managing distributed industrial assets.
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with MQTT or other messaging systems, Redis, PostgreSQL.
- Industrial environments: manufacturing, MES/ERP, test or automation equipment.
Bonus: Hands-on experience with margo.
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.