Responsible Engineer – Component
Hermeus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Los Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonVBA
About the role
- Design, build, qualify, acceptance test, and deliver flight valves, actuators, mechanisms, and other mechanical systems
- Fully own critical flight hardware from concept to delivery
- Work with system owners to architect and integrate components within engine and vehicle systems
- Perform system-level architecture, sizing, and design trades
- Lead system design, analysis, development testing, qualification, and production introduction of mechanical systems
- Scope vehicle-level operational methods and limits to ensure reliability and personnel safety across production and operations
- Make risk-conscious technical decisions aligned with program posture
- Prioritize tasks to meet top-level program and company objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline (mechanical, aerospace, physics, materials, etc.)
- 5+ years of engineering, competition team, or applied research experience related to fluids, mechanisms, or engine systems
- Experience using CAD to design parts and assemblies
- Willingness to travel to support hardware builds and flight tests
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Positive attitude in the face of extreme technical challenges
- Master’s degree in engineering discipline (preferred)
- 4+ years of experience developing hardware from concept to production (preferred)
- Proficiency in compressible/incompressible flow, thermodynamics, kinematics, mechanism design, mechanics of materials, and materials
- Strong knowledge of GD&T and stack-up analysis
- Scripting experience (Python, Matlab, Excel, VBA, etc.)
- Professional experience using Siemens NX/Teamcenter and ANSYS
- Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing (22 C.F.R. § 120.62)
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
mechanical designaerospace engineeringfluid dynamicsmechanism designthermodynamicskinematicsmechanics of materialsGD&Tstack-up analysisscripting
Soft skills
leadershipproblem-solvingrisk managementtask prioritizationpositive attitudecommunicationteam collaborationadaptabilitytechnical decision-makingtime management