Responsibilities:
- Ground segment product definition and strategy: Define ground segment product capabilities spanning mission planning, command and control, telemetry ingestion, operator interfaces, data logging, playback, and debrief; translate operational needs, flight-test objectives, and customer requirements into prioritized capability increments with clear acceptance criteria; and maintain the ground segment product roadmap aligned with program milestones and flight events.
- Operator experience and workflow definition: Define operator-facing workflows for mission planning, execution, monitoring, contingency management, and debrief, ensuring ground segment capabilities support intuitive, deterministic, and auditable interactions while clearly representing operator actions, autonomy commands, and vehicle state to users.
- Integration intent and interfaces of interest: Define integration intent and interface expectations between ground systems, airborne systems, autonomy services, simulation environments, and debrief tools, ensuring capability definitions account for OMS, UCI, ICDs, APIs, schemas, message contracts, versioning expectations, and integration risks while driving cross-team alignment.
- Mission data lifecycle and evidence support: Define product expectations for the mission data lifecycle from onboard logging through ground ingestion, synchronization, storage, playback, and analysis, establishing requirements for time alignment, metadata tagging, event annotation, and evidence capture to support verification, validation, regression testing, and post-flight analysis.
- Simulation, HITL, and flight enablement: Define how ground segment capabilities are exercised across SITL, HITL, Joint Simulation Environment (JSE), and live flight environments, ensuring consistency of workflows, telemetry expectations, and mission phase transitions while partnering with test teams to enable deterministic testing and rapid issue isolation.
- Cross-domain and secure data workflows: Define product requirements for cross-domain mission data packaging, sanitization, transfer, and storage, establishing expectations for metadata, integrity checks, and evidence handling while ensuring ground segment capabilities account for security, export-control, and data-handling constraints.
- Readiness, verification, and delivery support: Define ground segment acceptance criteria and readiness expectations for flight events and demonstrations, support readiness discussions and milestone reviews by representing scope, maturity, and limitations, and ensure deliverables are traceable, review-ready, and aligned with program and customer needs.
- Customer and stakeholder engagement: Support government and partner engagements related to ground segment capabilities, operator workflows, and mission data products, and help shape deliverables, demonstrations, and transition artifacts for external stakeholders.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience delivering mission systems, ground control software, operator interfaces, telemetry systems, or distributed data platforms.
- Demonstrated experience defining and delivering complex, operator-facing system capabilities.
- Strong familiarity with OMS, UCI, ICD-driven development, and service-based mission architectures.
- Understanding of mission data pipelines, time synchronization, logging, playback, and analysis workflows.
- Experience working with Cameo Systems Modeler, SysML, and building MBSE models
- Experience working across simulation, HITL, and flight-test environments.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills with engineers, operators, and program leadership.
- Active Secret clearance required; TS/SCI preferred.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Experience supporting unmanned or high-speed aircraft ground operations.
- Familiarity with cross-domain data workflows, sanitization processes, and classified mission environments.
- Experience integrating or coordinating third-party mission software or analytics tools.
- Background supporting DoD flight test, demonstrations, or transition programs.
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What We Do
Hermeus is a high-speed aircraft manufacturer focused on the rapid design, build, and test of high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for the national interest. Working directly with the Department of Defense, Hermeus delivers capabilities that will ensure that our nation, and our allies, maintain an asymmetric advantage over any and all potential adversaries.
Utilizing an integrated, hardware-rich, iterative development approach to aircraft design and build, Hermeus aims to deliver advanced air power at a pace not seen in the U.S. since the 1950s. Hermeus’ current Quarterhorse Program is actively unlocking unmanned high-speed flight. One program, four aircraft – each purpose-built to unlock a specific technical challenge, advance learnings, and incrementally de-risk critical technology in the pursuit of hypersonic aircraft.
Today, Hermeus is building its second Quarterhorse vehicle, Mk 2, after having designed, built, and flight tested its predecessor, Mk 1, in 18 months. Capable of reaching speeds of Mach 3+, Quarterhorse Mk 2 will be the fastest uncrewed military aircraft in service for national defense. The final iteration of Quarterhorse, Mk 4, will be capable of transitioning from turbofan to ramjet mode utilizing a Hermeus-developed turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) propulsion system to achieve sustained speeds of Mach 5+.
Hermeus' approach of build-fly-build lays the groundwork for unlocking hypersonic flight at a pace and cost previously deemed impossible. America needs fast planes fast – and Hermeus is delivering them.
Why Work With Us
We prioritize hardware and people. Cutting-edge technology is only made possible by bringing together a world-class team. At Hermeus, you will be challenged – but also empowered. We encourage calculated risks taking and learning from our mistakes. Iteration is the name of the game.
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