Jobs at Hermeus

• Service Desk & Escalations

Provide senior-level, hands-on support for daily service desk operations, including ticket intake, prioritization, documentation, and resolution.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, and operating system issues across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Serve as the senior technical escalation point for issues the team cannot resolve, driving them to closure before engaging vendors or engineering.
Own problem management: run root cause analysis on recurring and high-impact issues and drive corrective actions to completion.
Participate in a weekly on-call rotation as the after-hours escalation point for critical incidents, maintenance windows, and test campaigns.
Mentor and develop junior IT support staff through ticket review, coaching, and knowledge transfer.

Hermeus is a venture-backed defense aviation company reclaiming the lost art of rapid iterative prototyping to build the fastest aircraft in the world today. By prioritizing relentless hardware iteration, we deliver high-speed systems at the pace of the modern battlefield.

• Provide day-to-day management and oversight of Business Development team administrative tools to ensure that the business remains focused and aligned on all growth activities (e.g., budgeting tools, BAA/RFP/RFI tools, Airtable, etc.).
• Lead follow-up communications, as necessary, with critical clients to ensure that deal and part...

• Own major Mission Management System capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, and operational use
• Design and develop high-performance C++ software for command and control, telemetry, mission workflows, and subsystem coordination

• Own the electrical power architecture and components for new vehicle development from concept through implementation and testing.
• Design and develop power electronics systems for supersonic and hypersonic aircraft applications.

• Develop and maintain embedded C/C++ software supporting aircraft communications, telemetry, Command & Control, and vehicle data links.
• Design and implement software that enables reliable communication between aircraft and ground control systems.

• FP&A Leadership: Partnering closely with the CFO and executive leadership team, serve as the focal point for the annual, quarterly and monthly forecasting and variance communication process across the company translating financial data into actionable information
• Support the CFO and executive team with Board reporting, investor materials and financial analy...

• Support development of a 6-DOF flight simulation including vehicle dynamics, sensor/actuator models, and engine/plant models to verify flight software in closed loop.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing, including integrating flight computers, avionics, sensors, actuators, and cable harnesses.

• Work alongside experienced engineers to assist in designing, setting up, and operating test stands, learning the fundamentals of propulsion system testing.
• Help instrument test setups, monitor test conditions, and analyze performance data to contribute to system improvements and troubleshooting efforts.

• Support the development and improvement of manufacturing processes for aircraft structures and hardware.
• Work hands-on with sheet metal, welded assemblies, tooling, and other manufacturing equipment on the factory floor.

• Partner with design engineering and manufacturing teams through vehicle development to create quality plans for hardware, including identification of key characteristics, prototype testing for functionality, and manufacturability, defining first article inspection requirements, and consideration of past failures and lessons learned

• Take technical ownership of internally developed applications as they transition from their original creators to IT.
• Learn and document existing application architecture, code, integrations, dependencies, data flows, and deployment processes.

• Configure, and maintain network hardware and software, including routers, switches, firewalls, Access Points (wireless), and VPNs.
• Monitor network performance and ensure system availability and reliability.

• Administer Microsoft 365 suite: Entra ID (Azure AD), Intune, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint.
• Implement scalable device and identity management strategies.

• Evaluate designs for manufacturability and testing, providing feedback to design team
• Design and implement tooling and test solutions where appropriate, to support component build and delivery

• Structural design supporting vehicle subsystems such as hydraulics, fuel systems, propulsion, and avionics
• Perform structural and thermal analyses using both hand calculations and FEA

• Conduct physical testing of subsystems and validate performance against requirements
• Develop and maintain detailed wire diagrams for subsystem integration

• Support integration and testing of mission hardware, software, sensors, radios, processors, and avionics systems.
• Develop and test software for command and control, telemetry, and subsystem interfaces.

• Support the development and implementation of flight software and guidance and control algorithms
• Implement, integrate, and test control algorithms in simulation, embedded, and hardware-integrated environments

• Software development on the human-machine interaction (HMI) program used by flight crew to control the aircraft and run simulations
• Software development on the communications software (RF, Satcom, networking) running on the ground and the vehicle