Responsible Engineer – Flight Termination System
Hermeus
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Own the design, integration, testing, and certification of the vehicle’s flight termination hardware and software
- Ensure compliance with range safety requirements and lead coordination with regulatory authorities
- Manage interface control with avionics and ground systems
- Serve as the technical authority for all FTS matters and be accountable for system reliability, documentation, and readiness through flight
- Assist with development, implementation, and subsystem-level testing of the FTS through range and/or RCC-319 compliant procedure development & test execution
- Coordinate and execute internal FTS and range testing with internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate and collaborate with range safety to review and approve FTS documentation and develop FTS requirements on future vehicles
- Contribute to flight-test planning for integrated company missions
- Ensure FTS flight hardware and test hardware is calibrated
- Perform as a lead/point of contact for selected FTS vendors/equipment
- Own the FTS test hardware suite
- Continually evaluate risks and risk mitigation plans to determine if the risks are appropriate and risk mitigations are adequate
- Clear and concise communication with Range entities and internal stakeholders
- Test and troubleshoot FTS as needed
- Support design reviews throughout vehicle development
- Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments
Requirements
- Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
- Meticulous attention to detail and a high level of motivation
- Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience with test planning and execution
- Knowledge of technical risk management
- Familiarity with components such as digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, arbitrary function generators, power supplies, schematics and circuits
- Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
- Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
- Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
- Knowledge of RF system design including link budgets, antenna design, and antenna placement
- Experience architecting avionics system design with COTS or in-house hardware
- Experience with environmental testing such as vibration, thermal, and shock
- Experience with instrumentation & sensors (accelerometers, thermocouples)
- Engineering computing languages & tools (C, C++, AGI STK, HFSS)
- Experience with Autonomous Flight Safety Systems (AFSS)
- Experience with government agencies
- Experience with air-launch programs
- Experience with aircraft prototype development, including releasing Engineering definition and developing work instructions
- Security clearance