The Component Responsible Engineer designs and tests mechanical systems, overseeing flight hardware development from concept to production, while ensuring reliability in operations.
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.
The Component Responsible Engineer is responsible for designing, building, qualifying, acceptance testing, and delivering flight valves, actuators, mechanisms, and other mechanical systems. This role is highly hands-on and technical, with ownership from clean sheet design through development and into production of flight hardware integrated into engine and vehicle systems.
This highly interdisciplinary role requires strong first-principles knowledge in mechanics, fluids, thermal sciences, and manufacturing; the ability to communicate requirements in a rapidly changing environment; and the drive to rapidly and safely create novel, cutting-edge hardware to accelerate the future of hypersonic travel.
Responsibilities:
- Fully own critical flight hardware from concept to delivery
- Work with system owners to architect and integrate components within engine and vehicle systems
- Perform system-level architecture, sizing, and design trades
- Lead system design, analysis, development testing, qualification, and production introduction of mechanical systems
- Scope vehicle-level operational methods and limits to ensure reliability and personnel safety across production and operations
- Make risk-conscious technical decisions aligned with program posture
- Prioritize tasks to meet top-level program and company objectives
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline (mechanical, aerospace, physics, materials, etc.)
- Experience using CAD to design parts and assemblies
- 5+ years of engineering, competition team, or applied research experience related to fluids, mechanisms, or engine systems
- Willingness to travel to support hardware builds and flight tests
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Positive attitude in the face of extreme technical challenges
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in engineering discipline (mechanical, aerospace, physics, materials, etc.)
- 4+ years of experience developing hardware from concept to production
- Proficiency in compressible/incompressible flow, thermodynamics, kinematics, mechanism design, mechanics of materials, and materials
- Strong knowledge of GD&T and stack-up analysis
- Scripting experience (Python, Matlab, Excel, VBA, etc.)
- Ability to execute in a scrappy, entrepreneurial manner with tight timelines
- Professional experience using Siemens NX/Teamcenter and ANSYS
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. US persons include U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Hermeus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions at Hermeus are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
Top Skills
Ansys
Cad
Excel
Matlab
Python
Siemens Nx
Teamcenter
VBA
Hermeus Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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