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Lead full-cycle recruiting for SG&A and Operations roles, partnering with hiring managers on requisitions, sourcing strategies, candidate pipelines, screening, interviews, and candidate experience. Build relationships with passive candidates, use innovative sourcing techniques and recruiting partners, promote the company mission and benefits, and maintain accurate records in Lever. The role supports finance, people operations, legal, facilities, business development, and operations teams in a fast-growing defense aviation company.

Design and develop complex aerospace mechanisms and mechanical systems for high-speed aircraft. Perform stress, fatigue, kinematics, FEA, and simulation analyses; oversee prototyping and testing; select materials and manufacturing processes; collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams; document designs and test results; mentor junior engineers; and contribute to aerospace research and development.

Provides senior-level IT support and escalations across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Owns endpoint, device, identity, Microsoft 365, security, asset, and service management; automates workflows with PowerShell; performs root cause analysis; maintains documentation; supports networking and onboarding/offboarding; mentors junior staff; participates in on-call coverage; and travels to company sites for operational support.

Contract Art Director responsible for defining visual and tonal brand guidelines, shaping PR and editorial storytelling, creating paid and organic still and motion assets, and supporting executive communications. The role combines creative strategy with hands-on design and production, requiring strong typography, layout, branding, communication, and agency or freelancer coordination skills. Work is approximately 16 hours per week for 3–6 months.

Designs and analyzes aircraft structures supporting hydraulics, fuel, propulsion, and avionics subsystems. Performs structural and thermal analysis, leads mechanical trade studies, and owns hardware development from concept through fabrication, integration, and testing. Collaborates with manufacturing, supply chain, test, suppliers, and customers to deliver practical, efficient designs. Requires a mechanical, aerospace, or physics degree, hands-on electromechanical design experience, and willingness to travel up to 25%.

Build Engineer responsible for converting aerospace designs into detailed hardware, tooling, manufacturing processes, test procedures, and flight-ready vehicle assemblies. The role leads prototype-to-production transitions, improves factory and test flows, collaborates across design and production teams, and delivers hardware on aggressive timelines. Hands-on experience with physical hardware, CAD, test equipment, manufacturing processes, and GD&T is required. Travel to test sites and partner locations may reach 25%.

Provide high-level administrative support to 2-3 senior executives: manage calendars, travel and itineraries, guest relations, meeting coordination, expense reports, and process improvements while collaborating cross-functionally and supporting occasional travel to LA, ATL, or DC.

As a Test Engineer, you will design, develop, and operate test assets for hypersonic vehicles, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and improve testing processes.

Supports Hermeus’s business development and government partnership efforts by managing BD tools and pipelines, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, preparing briefing materials, maintaining customer collateral, analyzing defense budgets and policy activity, supporting conferences, and managing subcontractor relationships. The role helps identify growth opportunities and maintain momentum with government and national security clients.

Architects, develops, integrates, tests, and validates mission management software for aircraft and ground systems. Builds high-performance C++ command-and-control, telemetry, mission workflow, and subsystem coordination capabilities. Integrates autonomy, sensors, payloads, radios, networks, and third-party systems while addressing performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and distributed-system challenges. Leads architecture, design reviews, integration activities, simulation environments, and technical troubleshooting during ground and flight tests. Mentors engineers and establishes software development practices.