Electrical Engineer @ Hermeus

Salary Range: 114750 to 140250 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

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.

Responsibilities:

Full lifecycle ownership of an avionics subsystem for a Quarterhorse development aircraft. This broad ownership scope is responsible for system architecture, design, component selection, in-house component design as needed, system layout and integration, procurement, fabrication, verification (testing and analysis), and overall success of the product through flight.
Be self-drivenand proactive to create and executeproject roadmaps
Working with other Responsible Engineers to ensure the vehicle is capable of performing its missions.
Use 1st principles to drive decision making

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
2+ years of experience in multiple of the following areas: electrical hardware design, control systems, instrumentation and signal conditioning, digital communication busses, analog design and simulation, power electronics, harness design

Preferred Skills and Experience

2+ years of full life cycle ownership of flight AVI systems.
Engineering project team experience
Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering or similar disciplines
Demonstrated project experience with embedded design, device integration, V&V, environmental qualification and/or flight testing
Familiarity with test and simulation tools (DMM, Oscilloscope, power supplies, SPICE, Ansys)
Experience with electrical and mechanical design and version control software (Altium Designer, Siemens NX, Teamcenter, Capital Harness, Git)
Experience with avionics devices and protocols (RS-485, ARINC-685, FPGAs, GPS, INS, D38999 style connectors, etc.)
Familiarity with aerospace industry standards (IPC-620, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-HDBK-516C, MIL-STD-464D, DO-160G) 
Experience working with DC power systems (Batteries, Motors, Generators, etc.)
Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills
A bias towards action, and a willingness to work hands-on to make it happen

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.

Electrical Engineer

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