The Mission Management Engineer coordinates with stakeholders to secure certification for flight vehicles, ensuring compliance with regulations and timely execution of projects.
Hermeus is an aerospace and defense technology company founded to radically accelerate air travel by delivering hypersonic aircraft. The company aims to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly and cost-effectively by integrating hardware-rich, iterative development with modern computing and autonomy. This approach has been validated through design, build, and test of the company’s first combined turbojet-ramjet engine and is now being scaled through its first flight vehicle program, Quarterhorse. Hermeus is also developing Darkhorse — an uncrewed hypersonic aircraft designed to deliver unique asymmetric capabilities to the warfighter.
The Mission Management team at Hermeus is charged with creating the strategy and leading the successful execution of US Government relationships and processes that enable the execution of company milestones. This close-knit team serves as the main interface between the relevant DoD, FAA, and FCC partners and internal company-wide teams. Our team is also responsible for acquiring and maintaining certification of the Hermeus flight vehicles, coordinating and planning with test ranges, and providing fleet insight to our government partners. Our work enables Hermeus to achieve a flight vehicle development rate of one per year.
On this team, you will own the interface between Hermeus technical teams and a Flight Test Range or FAA certification to ensure successful and timely flights. You will ensure Hermeus’ designs, test plans, and qualification campaigns result in mature systems so that our partners can feel confident in the vehicle’s ability to perform its intended mission.
As a Mission Management Engineer, you will own and negotiate deliverables to partners, coordinate technical analyses, ensure compliance with challenging mission-specific requirements, and maintain a positive customer relationship. Team members are extreme owners and excel across a breadth of functions including systems engineering, flight test planning, requirements verification, project management, and mission management.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders, regulatory authorities, certification agencies, and other external entities to obtain and maintain necessary approvals to enable ground and flight test.
- Generate professional documents to enable the certification of flight vehicle systems.
- Maintain configuration control of a certified system and facilitate approval from external authorities when changes are needed
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, test, and quality assurance teams to ensure that activities adhere to regulatory standards.
- Coordinate and chair reviews with external partners and ensure that certification deliverables are submitted on time and meet the customer’s expectations.
- Develop and track certification basis and requirements for development vehicles.
- Develop and implement certification strategies, processes, and procedures in compliance with military and civil aviation regulations.
- Manage the documentation and record-keeping processes related to regulatory compliance.
- Be relentless in challenging the status quo to accelerate historic review periods and advocate for efficient regulatory processes.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or science with 3+ years of industry experience
- 3+ years of technical project management experience
- 3+ years of experience working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in an engineering field
- Amanned or unmanned pilots license
- 3+ years of experience working with government, FAA, NASA, DoD, or commercial launch contract
- Experience in airworthiness management, preferably in both military and civil aviation environments
- Professional experience working with flight vehicles, launch vehicles, spacecraft or other aerospace/defense systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with direct experience negotiating technical deliverables or scope
- Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership skills
- Experience working with cross-functional team and external customers.
- Highly detail oriented, diligent, hard working with excellent customer interface skills
- Passion for rapid aviation development
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere
Additional Requirements:
- Willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to support critical milestones.
- Willing to travel to test sites, other Hermeus offices, and partner locations as needed (up to 25% travel)
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
Aerospace Systems
Flight Test Planning
Project Management
Regulatory Compliance
Hermeus Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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