Jobs at Hermeus

Designs, models, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF hardware and antenna systems for aircraft and ground stations. Responsibilities include defining architectures and requirements, developing RF and environmental test procedures, designing microwave circuits, validating system performance, analyzing data, supporting manufacturing integration, and presenting results. The role requires experience with L/S/C/Ku/Ka-band systems, RF test equipment, antenna simulation, airborne vehicles, regulatory filings, and test campaign travel.

Architects, develops, integrates, tests, and validates mission management software for aircraft and ground systems. Builds high-performance C++ command-and-control, telemetry, mission workflow, and subsystem coordination capabilities. Integrates autonomy, sensors, payloads, radios, networks, and third-party systems while addressing performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and distributed-system challenges. Leads architecture, design reviews, integration activities, simulation environments, and technical troubleshooting during ground and flight tests. Mentors engineers and establishes software development practices.

Develop and maintain real-time aircraft simulation environments for flight-control and avionics verification. Build SIL and HIL test systems, create MATLAB/Simulink models and generated code, integrate aircraft dynamics and hardware interfaces, improve simulation fidelity and performance, automate testing, and collaborate with GNC, avionics, embedded software, and systems teams to validate flight-critical systems.

Define RF system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and verification plans. Design, build, integrate, and test RF hardware for aircraft and ground systems, including antennas, radios, telemetry, navigation, and instrumentation. Conduct RF, environmental, and system-level testing; troubleshoot performance issues; analyze test and flight data; and support ground and flight test activities. Collaborate across avionics, GNC, software, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams while supporting regulatory and spectrum coordination.

Develop embedded C/C++ flight software and networking for aircraft-to-ground command and control, telemetry, RF communications, and vehicle data links. Design architectures and interfaces, integrate software with radios and avionics, troubleshoot hardware and network issues, and execute laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, system-level, flight, and range testing. Collaborate across engineering teams while supporting safety-critical software, technical roadmaps, and communications system integration. Travel up to approximately 25% is required.

Lead FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario planning, and financial modeling. Partner with executives, technical teams, and functional leaders on board reporting, investor materials, program costs, capital expenditures, resource planning, and strategic decisions. Improve FP&A systems, reporting automation, multi-year planning, and profitability tracking in a hardware-focused defense aviation environment.

Provides senior-level IT support and escalations across Windows, macOS, and Linux; manages endpoints, identity, Microsoft 365, security controls, assets, and onboarding/offboarding. Automates processes with PowerShell, performs root cause analysis, maintains documentation, troubleshoots networking, mentors junior staff, and partners with Cyber, Networking, People, engineering, and manufacturing teams. The role is onsite in Atlanta, includes weekly on-call coverage, and requires occasional travel to other sites.

Supports supersonic aircraft development through structural static and dynamic analysis, external load definition, finite element modeling, aeroelastic and flutter evaluation, vibration environment definition, and validation using testing and flight data. Collaborates with aerodynamics and structures teams on aircraft programs. This is a 12-week summer internship for enrolled STEM students with strong engineering fundamentals, communication skills, and a minimum 3.0 GPA.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for SG&A and Operations roles, partnering with hiring managers on requisitions, sourcing strategies, candidate pipelines, screening, interviews, and candidate experience. Build relationships with passive candidates, use innovative sourcing techniques and recruiting partners, promote the company mission and benefits, and maintain accurate records in Lever. The role supports finance, people operations, legal, facilities, business development, and operations teams in a fast-growing defense aviation company.

Support development of 6-DOF flight simulations and hardware-in-the-loop testing for flight software. Responsibilities include modeling vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and engines; writing C++, Python, and MATLAB tooling; integrating avionics and flight hardware; troubleshooting with schematics and bench equipment; and automating logging, playback, and test workflows. The intern will independently own simulation and integration tasks within a multidisciplinary aerospace team.

Supports propulsion engine and system-level testing by helping design, set up, and operate test stands; instrumenting test setups; monitoring conditions; analyzing performance data; troubleshooting issues; and improving test processes and safety procedures. Collaborates with engineers and technicians on hypersonic aircraft development.

Leads build reliability and quality engineering across aircraft design, manufacturing, testing, and flight operations. Responsibilities include quality planning, inspection methods, failure investigation, root cause corrective action, QMS requirements, containment, nonconformance and MRB resolution, lean process improvement, and inspector support. The role requires hands-on production-floor work, collaboration with design and manufacturing teams, and up to 25% travel.

Supports the development and improvement of aircraft manufacturing processes, including sheet metal fabrication, welding, tooling, structural assembly, defect investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, process documentation, and continuous improvement. Works hands-on alongside engineers and technicians on the factory floor to improve quality, repeatability, efficiency, and standardized manufacturing practices.

Own and evolve internally developed business applications by documenting architectures, maintaining and enhancing production systems, reviewing AI-generated code, addressing technical debt, developing APIs and integrations, and establishing secure development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and support practices. Troubleshoot issues across application, infrastructure, integration, and data layers while partnering with IT, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

Installs, configures, monitors, troubleshoots, secures, and maintains local and wide area networks. Manages network hardware, wireless systems, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, access controls, and intrusion detection. Develops documentation, supports infrastructure projects, resolves complex technical issues, participates in on-call incident response, and applies current networking technologies and NIST guidelines.

Build, automate, secure, and support enterprise IT, ICS, IoT, cloud, and on-premises infrastructure. Administer Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, AWS, Azure, virtualization, networks, and cross-platform endpoints. Develop infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows using PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, and C#. Resolve advanced escalations, improve uptime and security, maintain documentation, and collaborate with cybersecurity, software, and operations teams in regulated defense environments.

Supports aerospace vehicle integration, flight-test planning, system checkout, telemetry monitoring, troubleshooting, test-data analysis, and development of test hardware, tooling, wiring, instrumentation, and automation scripts. Collaborates with engineers, technicians, and pilots to prepare and execute safe, repeatable vehicle tests. The internship provides hands-on exposure to rapid hardware development and flight-test operations.

Mechanical Engineering Intern supporting structural design and integration of hydraulic, fuel, propulsion, avionics, and structural systems for supersonic aircraft. Responsibilities include hand calculations, FEA, structural and thermal analysis, subsystem trade studies, hardware development, fabrication, integration, testing, and technical presentations. The intern will collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, test, suppliers, and customers.

Supports the design, development, manufacturing coordination, setup, testing, and documentation of propulsion components and systems. Creates and releases engineering drawings, collaborates with engineers, manufacturers, and vendors, and assists with propulsion test rigs and hardware development activities.

Supports flight operations, airworthiness, safety documentation, risk analysis, technical deliverables, and operational data assessment for experimental aircraft. Collaborates with engineering, flight test, operations, and program teams to develop accurate airworthiness artifacts, identify process gaps, and advance certification and program milestones.