Senior Team Lead, Airframe & Aerostructures

About the role

Harmattan AI is a next‑generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The Senior Team Lead, Airframe & Aerostructures will own the structural design of a new composite airframe from concept through production, working on‑site in Rabat.

Key responsibilities

• Build, lead and grow a composite engineering team on site, handling recruitment, onboarding and technical development.
• Drive the structural design of composite airframe structures, including laminates, joints, inserts and tooling strategy.
• Lead fast in‑house composite prototyping and transition designs into series manufacturing processes.
• Own system‑level trade‑offs across mass budget, thermal performance and manufacturing cost.
• Define and manage the airframe roadmap from prototype to production hand‑over.

Required profile

• 5+ years of mechanical or aerospace structural engineering experience in defense, aerospace or robotics, with team‑lead responsibility.
• MSc in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• At least one product taken from concept to production with strong composite structural design expertise.
• Hands‑on experience in carbon fabrication, prototyping and industrialisation.

Required skills

• Composite structural design
• Carbon fiber fabrication
• Prototyping of composite components
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and simulation