2 months ago
Los Angeles, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$110k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop modern C++ software for flight autonomy, guidance, navigation, and control.
- Design and implement mission-autonomy behaviors and vehicle decision-making capabilities.
- Develop and integrate guidance and control loops for unmanned aircraft.
- Integrate and evaluate navigation sensors, navigation solutions, aircraft software, command-and-control systems, communications links, ground systems, and operator interfaces.
- Develop automated test suites, simulation scenarios, and utilities to verify autonomy performance.
- Collaborate with GNC engineers, simulation engineers, RPA pilots, flight-operations teams, and other multidisciplinary groups.
- Diagnose complex issues across autonomy software, vehicle dynamics, navigation, simulation, and command-and-control interfaces.
- Participate in software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, ground-test, and flight-test activities.
- Own technical problems from investigation through implementation, integration, testing, and operational use.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- Strong proficiency with modern C++ and experience developing production-quality software.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals in architecture, debugging, testing, and performance-conscious development.
- Experience developing software for unmanned aircraft, autonomous vehicles, robotics, spacecraft, or other autonomous systems.
- Experience with guidance and control algorithms, control loops, trajectory generation, or vehicle guidance software.
- Experience developing or integrating flight or mission-autonomy capabilities.
- Experience developing or integrating navigation systems, sensors, or state-estimation solutions.
- Ability to work across software, GNC, simulation, systems, operations, and other engineering disciplines.
- Ability to independently identify technical problems and drive them through resolution.
- Experience integrating complex software capabilities into larger vehicle or robotic-system architectures.
- Preferred experience with unmanned aerial systems, remotely piloted aircraft, flight guidance, path planning, trajectory generation, control allocation, vehicle control, GNSS, INS, IMUs, air-data systems, sensor fusion, mission planning, contingency management, health monitoring, communications, telemetry, command interfaces, simulation, system-integration labs, ground testing, flight testing, or aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous vehicle, or spacecraft systems.
- Preferred experience working in startup, rapid-prototyping, or highly iterative development environments.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid healthcare and pet insurance.
- Competitive pay, stock options, 401(k) retirement plan, and potential year-end bonuses.
- Paid parental leave and 12 federal holidays.
- Unlimited PTO for exempt employees and accrued PTO for non-exempt employees.
- Weekly paid office lunches and fully stocked breakrooms.
- Employment requires U.S. person status under export-control rules or eligibility for deemed export licensing.
About Hermeus
Hermeus designs and manufactures high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for defense and future high-speed transport, selling government-focused flight systems and test programs. The company is privately held, founded in 2018, and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Current efforts include the unmanned Quarterhorse program and engine integration aimed at enabling Mach 5-class flight, with contracts and collaborations with the U.S. Department of Defense.