Hermeus is a high-speed aircraft manufacturer looking for a Ground Segment Engineer, Airborne Systems to design, implement, and integrate operator-facing mission control software and mission data ecosystem. The engineer will work with autonomy, mission systems, airborne software, and test teams to ensure ground-segment workflows and software interfaces correctly represent autonomy states, mission logic, and real-time aircraft behavior.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with a strong software focus.
- 8+ years of experience developing mission-system interfaces, operator software, telemetry systems, or distributed data architectures for unmanned systems, aerospace platforms, or mission operations environments.
- Strong proficiency in software development with experience in languages such as C++, Python, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript for UI, backend, and data systems development.
- Demonstrated expertise integrating Open Mission Systems (OMS) and Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI) services, schemas, and message catalogs into ground software.
- Experience building real-time telemetry pipelines, data loggers, message brokers, and synchronization frameworks for time-series mission data.
- Hands-on experience developing mission playback tools, visualization systems, or multi-source event reconstruction applications.
- Familiarity with cross-domain workflows, data sanitization pipelines, metadata standards, and secure data-management practices.
- Experience integrating ground software into Software-in-the-Loop (SITL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL), or Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) testbeds.
- Ability to design and maintain APIs, schema translators, telemetry decoders, and automated interface verification tools.
- Proficiency with software development tools including Git, continuous integration pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and debugging tools.
- Strong ability to analyze logs, telemetry, operator actions, and simulation traces to diagnose issues and refine system behavior.
- Experience collaborating with autonomy engineers, airborne software teams, mission systems engineers, test personnel, and operator representatives.
- Active Secret clearance required; Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) preferred.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health care
- 401k & Retirement Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Weekly Paid Office Lunches
- Fully stocked breakrooms
- Stock Options
- Paid Parental Leave
